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exceedingly Toft, and, upon clofely examining them, 
each hair is parti-colour’d, that is, dufky at the root, 
then a little- yellowifh, then dark, and then yellowifh 
again, fomewhat like the foft feathers of partridges. 
The fingers are flender, each having three joints: 
they are five on each extremity, and are pointed by 
nails rather refembling the claws of birds, than thofe 
of human bodies ; which is common to moft other 
fpecies of the cercopitheci. 
I fince waited on Mr. Hyde, of Charterhorfe- 
fquare, who fhew’d me another of thefe, winch 
happens to be the male of this very fpecies now de- 
ferred, and feems about one fize larger than my 
lord’s, being about eight inches, meafured by a pack- 
thread, from the nofeto the root of the tail, and from 
thence, the tail is about ten inches long. It weighs 
about fix ounces and a quarter, is very flender like 
the female, and with fome difficulty moves his pof- 
terior extremities ; but they feem always better in 
warm weather, and more adtive than in winter, be- 
ing fcarce able to bear cold. 
The fame gentleman gave me befides an account 
of the following particulars relating to it : 
This and a female, which is lince dead, were 
brought by an Eaft-India fhip about two years ago, 
from Brafile, having occafionally touch’d there in its 
return from the Indies : which fhews Brafile to be the 
native place of thefe animals. And as Mr. Hyde has 
had his monkey nowtwo years, thefe may be reafonably 
fuppofed at their full growth j and perhaps the males 
are commonly fomewhat larger than the females, as 
it is in fome other animals. They are both very thin 
and fpare, and of the fame colour in every refpect, 
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