FOCjk-FINGERED MONKEY, 
hagena, Guiana, Brasil, and Peru, He 
juotes, from Dampier, what he calls a lively 
description of their gambols : which passage, 
lowever, is applied, by BufFoHy to the Ouarine^ 
)r Pennant's Preacher Monkey^ Both can- 
lot be right J and we even fear to adopt, as 
)articularly applicable to this Monkey, what 
Suffon himself extracts from Dampier, to 
liustrate it's history. 
Edwards mentions two Four - Fingered 
VIonkeys, as follows — ** In Oxford Road,'* 
ays he, " near Soho Square^ I lately— (A. D. 
76 L) — saw, at a house where they shew wild- 
>easts, &c. a black Monkey, something like 
ihe Middle-Sized Black Monkey ; they called 
aim a Spider Monkey, froirt the thinness and 
he length of his limbs and tail. His face was 
i)f a flesh colour. He held fast by his tail, 
)y twisting it round any thing. His great 
singularity, and what I never observed before, 
vas, that the hands had four fingers only, the 
thumbs being wanting. There was, at the 
ame place, another long-limbed Four-Fingered 
Vionkey ^ in all respects like the former, ex- 
cept that the hair was brown, I was willing,*' 
adds 
