MIDDLE-SIZED BLACK MONKEY. 
regarded as species very nearly allied, if not 
varieties of the same. In this case," he adds, 
** as we are not certain that our Talapoin is a 
native of the East Indies ; and as Edwards 
assures us, that his Monkey came from Gui- 
nea, we must refer the Talapoin to the same 
climate; or, rather, suppose that it is common 
to the southern regions of both Africa and 
Asia. It is, probably, the same species of 
Black Apes mentioned by Bosman, under the 
name Bourdmannetjes ; whose skin, he re- 
marks, is an excellent fur." 
Bosman says, in the passage thus alluded 
to, that there is, in Guinea, a" third species of 
Ape, which is very beautiful, and generally 
exceeds not two feet in length. It*s hair is 
extremely black, and more than an inch long, 
and it's beard is white ; from which circum- 
stance, the Dutch call it Bourdmannetje. 
Bonnets are made of their skins, and each fur 
sells at four crowns. 
There is, unquestionably, considerable ground 
to suppose the Bourdmannetje, thus described 
by Bosman, to be of the same species with our 
Middle- 
