PROBOSCIS MONKEY, 
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per parts of the -"animal 1 are of a dark olivaceous 
colour, owing to a mixture of olive green, and 
black hair ; the face black, with a snow-white 
triangular spot on the nose ; the chin, throat, 
breast, and belly, white ; the under part of the 
tail, and insides of the limbs of blackish grey, 
it is an extremely nimble and active animal, 
according to Mr. Allamand. The individual in 
his possession came from Guinea. It was per- 
fectly familiar, playful, of a gentle disposition^ 
and so rapid in its motions that it seemed to fly 
rather than leap. 
Proboscis monkey. 
Amongst the whole tribe of monkies, this, per« 
haps, may be considered as the most singular in 
its aspect ; the nose being of such a length and 
form as to present, especially in a profile view, 
an appearance the most grotesque imaginable ; 
and indeed, from an inspection of the figure alone, 
one would be apt to imagine that it must have 
been designed for a caricature of a monkey. The 
animal, however, is preserved in the royal cabinet 
at Paris, and was first described by Mons d'Au- 
benton. It is a large species, measuring two feet 
from the tip of the nose to the tail, w hich is more 
than two feet long. The face was a kind of cur- 
ved form, and is of a brown colour, and marked 
with blue and red : the ears broad, thin, naked, 
and hid within the hair. The head is large, and 
covered with chesnut-coloured hair : the whole 
body is also of a similar colour, except that on 
the breast it approaches to orange. Round the 
throat and shoulders the hair is much longer than 
on the other parts, so as to form a sort of cloak,' 
as in some of the baboons, to which, indeed, this 
species seems nearly allied. It is an East Indian 
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