LESSER CAGUl MONKEY. 
round. The top of the front is covered with 
black hair; and, above the nose, there is a 
white spot without hair. The face is hkewise 
almost naked, and of a deep flesh-colour. On 
each side of the head, before the ears, is a tuft 
of long white hairs. The ears are roundish, 
flat, thin, and naked. The eyes are of a red- 
dish chesnut colour. The body is covered 
with grey ash- coloured hair, interspersed with 
a little yellow on the throat, breast, and belly. 
They walk on four feet ; and often exceed not 
half a foot in length. The females do not 
menstruate. 
Pennant's reason for calling this animal the 
Striated Monkey, is only to be known by his 
description of the colour. The body," he 
says, *' is ash-coloured, reddish, and dusky ; the 
last forms striated bars across the body/' With 
less discrimination than miirht have been ex- 
pe6led from this laborious and very respec- 
table naturalist, he simply describes the hands 
and feet as " covered with short hairs; fingers 
like those of a squirrel; and nails, or rather 
claws, sharp." Edwards, witli more mi- 
nuteness and precision, as above quoted, no- 
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