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covered with brown hair of a lightifh co- 
lour, except that over the eyes, and from 
the forehead along the crown, it was much 
darker ; the whole body was alfo covered 
with brown hair, darker on the back, and 
lighter on the under fide, where it became 
very thin fet, or almoft none; the hair 
grew thin alfo towards the paws; the dark 
lift of hair from the forehead was conti- 
nued down the neck, along the ridge of 
the back, and upper lide of the tail, to its 
end. The tail was little and Ihort, con- 
trary to what is common in the Monkey 
kind ; for they generally have either long 
tails, or are naturally without tails. He 
ufually carried his tail as reprefented in 
the figure. Under his tail were two cal- 
lous round pieces of fkin, on which he 
fat, when he llept, or was out of adtion. 
His paws (as well thofe of the hinder legs, 
as thofe forward) refembled human hands, 
having flat nails: the paws forward differed 
in the thumbs from the human hand, they 
being Ihorter and lefs in proportion : on the 
contrary, the hinder paws had the thumbs 
larger. 
This is with us an uncommon fpecies of 
Monkey, it being the find I remember to 
have feen of its kind: it was a male; but 
fince I purchafed this, which lived a year 
with me, I have feen a female of the fame 
fpecies fbewn in Bartholomew Fair,London. 
It was larger by half than mine, which I 
carried to compare with it : they feemed 
highly pleafed with each other’s company, 
though it was the firft time of their meet- 
ing. I cannot find any defcription in former 
Natural Hiflorians agreeing with this, there 
being no proper diftindtion made between 
the fpecies of Mon kies, which are very 
numerous. They are found in almofl: all 
the countries between the northern and 
fouthern tropics : cold countries are dif- 
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fes dents rejfcmbloient d celles de fhomme . 11 
audit la fete couverte de pGil d y itn brun clair , 
except e qu audejjiis des yeux, et depuis le front 
jufqii au fommet de la tete, il etoit plus 
fonce. II avoit aujji tout le corps convert de 
poil brun , plus fonce fur le dos , et plus clair 
fur le ventre , ou il n'y en avoit qtie tres pcu, 
et pour ainf-dire point du tout ; il n'y en 
avoit prefque pomt nonplus vers les mdchoires . 
Le poil fonce, qu il avoit fur la fete , formoit 
une raye , laquelle defendant fur le cou , s eten- 
doit le long du dos , jufquau bout de la queue , 
qui etoit courte et menue , contre l' ordinaire 
des Singes ; car Us ont en general de longues 
queues , ou Us n en ont naturellement point du 
tout . Celui-ci avoit contume de porter la 
fenne cotnme la figure le reprefente ; il avoit 
fous la queue deux pieces de peau caleufe , 
rondes , fur quoi il s' affeyoit, quand il dor molt, 
ou qu'il etoit dam I'inaBion . Ses pates , 
tant celles de derriere que celles de dev ant, reft 
fembloient d des mains , ay ant les ongles plats, 
excepte qu elles en differ oient par les pouces , 
qui etoient plus courts et moins gros a pro~ 
portion aux pates de devant, et au contraire , 
plus gros et plus longs aux pates de derriere . 
Cette ejpece de Singe eft rare ici , puifque 
celui-ci eft le premier que je me fouvienne 
d' avoir vu\ c etoit un male . Mais apres l' avoir 
achete , et l' avoir eu quelque temps ( car il a vku 
un an entre mes mains) je rencontrai une femelle 
de la meme ejpece , qu on montroit par curi 
oftte a lafoire de la S\ Barthelemi , a Londres . 
Elle etoit la moitie plus grande que mon male , 
que j'y fts porter pour les comparer: Us 
parurent fort charmes de fe voir enfemble , 
quoique ce jut- Id leur premiere entrevu'L jfe 
ne faurois trouver, dans les Naturaliftes pre- 
cedents, de defcription qui reponde d celle - 
ci, parce quil n y a point de diftinBion 
re guli ere etabiie entre les diverfes efpeces de 
Singes, qui font en fort grand nombre . On 
en trouve dans prejque tons les pays ftues 
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