MIDDLE-SIZED BLACK MONKEY. 
from bis extreme thinness, and the great length 
of his limbs and tail. ** His great singularity," 
adds Edwards, and what I never observed 
before, was, that the hands had four fingers 
only, the thumbs being wanting. There was, 
at the same place, another long-limbed, four- 
fingered Monkey, in all respects like the for- 
mer, except that the hair was brown. I was 
willing to make this memorandum, because 
this genus of Monkey had not been before 
discovered by me.'* » 
Mr. Pennant, who has evidently described 
his Negro Monkey entirely from Edwards's 
Middle-Sized Black Monkey, as above quoted, 
adds that, in Siam, there is a large species of 
Black Monkey, probably different from this. 
BufFon says, in his description of the Ta- ' 
lapoin Monkey, " Mr. Edwards has given a 
figure and description of a Monkey, under the 
denomination of the Middle- Sized Black Mon- 
key, which seems to make a nearer approach 
to the Talapoin than any other. If ihe size 
and colour be excepted, they have such a re- 
semblance to each other ^ that they may be 
regarded 
