LESSER CAGUI MONKEY. 
Stick very fast to the breasts of their dam ; 
but when they grow a h'ttle bigger, hang to 
her back or shoulders ; who, when she is tired 
of them, will rub them off against the wall, 
or any thing else in her way; when she has 
quitted them, the male immediately takes the 
care of them, and suffers them to hang on 
his. back for a while, to ease the female." 
Buffon says, it is certain, that neither this 
animal, nor any other Sagoin, exists in Ethi- 
opia ; and, that the Fonkes, or Guereza, of 
Ludolphus, is probably the Maucauco, or Lo- 
ris, both which are common in the southern 
regions of the Old Continent. 
The distin6tive charatElers of this species, 
as enumerated by Buffon, are these — 
They have neither cheek pouches, nor cal- 
losities on the buttocks. The tail is flaccid, 
very bushy, annulated with alternate bars ot 
bhick and white, or rather of brown and grey, 
and t\\ ice as long as the head and body. 1 he 
partition of the nostrils is very thick, and the 
apertures arc placed in the sides. The head v. 
round, 
