22 LEONINE, AND PURPLE-FACED MONKEY, 
Leonine monkey, 
This species was described from the living 
animal in the possession of the Due de Bouillon* 
and was in the royal menagerie at Versailles* in 
the year 1775. Its length was two feet from nose 
to tail* a?nd it was eighteen inches high when 
standing on all fours. The legs were long in pro- 
portion to the body : the face naked and quite 
black ; the whole body and limbs of the same 
colour ; the hair* though long* appearing short* 
©n account of its lying smooth : around the 
face, according to Buffon’s figure* is a fine 
long chevelure of grey brown hair* and a large 
beard of fair grey. The chevelure* or spreading 
hair round the face * stretches upwards over the 
eyes and forehead so as to encircle the whole head 
in a remarkable manner ; as in the ovanderoo or 
lion-tailed baboon ; to which* indeed* from the 
figure as well as description* it appears so ex- 
tremely similar* that it might well pass for a va- 
riety of that animal. The eyes are of a deep 
brown ; the nose flat* and the nostrils large and 
separated like those of the ovanderon ; from 
which, however it differs in the far superior length 
of the tail* which measures' twenty-seven inches* 
and is tufted at the end. It has callosities be- 
hind : the feet and hands are a little hairy* but 
the fingers are naked ; the ears also are naked* 
fiat* round* and hid by the hair. It was gup*, 
posed to be a native of Abyssinia. 
Purple-faced monkey. 
This monkey has a large triangular white beard* 
short and pointed at the bottom* and extended on 
each side of the ears like wings ; its face and 
