34 • SPOTTED, AND LONG-NOSED MONKEY. 
nea and Angola, and is full of froliG and ridi- 
culous grimace. 
Spotted monkey, or diana. 
The spotted monkey is a species of a middle 
size ; it has a long white beard ; the upper par*ts 
of its body are reddish, as if they had been sin- 
ged, and are marked with white specks ; the 
belly and chin are whitish, and the tail very 
long. Linnaeus describes his Diana monkey some- 
what differently. He says, it is of the size of a 
large cat, black, spotted w ith white ; that the 
hind part of the back is ferruginous ; its face 
black, and its beard pointed, black above and 
white beneath, placed on a fattish excrescence ; 
that its breast and throat are white ; that a white 
line passes from the nose over each eye in an 
arched form to the ears ; that there is a white line 
passing from the rump cross the thighs ; that the 
tail is long, straight, and black ; that the ears 
and feet are of the same colour ; and that it has 
large canine teeth. It inhabits Guinea and Congo. 
Long-nosed monkey. 
This monkey has a very long slender nose, 
covered with a flesh-coloured, naked, skin ; the 
hair on its head falls back ; that on its body and 
breast is long ; the colour of the head and upper 
part of the body and limbs is pale ferruginous^ 
mixed with black ; that of the breast and belly 
light ash ; its tail is very long ; the height of the 
animal, when sitting, is about two feet ; its face 
is very much like that of a long nosed dog ; it is 
very good natured. Pennant, who describes it, 
is uncertain as to its country ; but thinks it m 
