( *95 ) 
The little Lion-Monkey. 
T HIS extraordinary Animal is here figur’d of its natural Size, as near as it 
could be taken, while it was playing its Monkey Tricks about its Lady’s Cham¬ 
ber : It is a Female, and one of the fmalleffc Species of Monkeys. 
The Fore-part of the Head, or what is call’d the Face in Monkeys, is covered 
with a black Skin; the Ears are alfo Black ; the Face is very thinly befet with ffiort 
white Hairs, which gives it a little Greynefs; thefe white Hairs are fomething 
thicker on the Borders of the Face, and form a lightifh Ring all round it. The Eyes 
are Black, fhewing no other Colour ; the Hair on the Head is White, long, and fpread- 
ing over the Shoulders like the Hair of a Man. The Shoulders, and the greatefi; 
Part of the Back, are covered, with longifh, loofe, fhagged Hair, of a brown Colour j 
the lower Part of the Back or Rump, gradually becomes of a bright-brown, or Orange- 
Colour ; one half of the Tail next the Body, is alfo cover’d with longifh Orange- 
colour’d Hair, the remaining half of the Tail gradually becomes Black, and conti¬ 
nues fo to its Tip. The Throat is Black, and without Hair j the Bread:, Belly, and 
all the Legs and Feet, are cover’d with fhort white Hair ; it hath five Toes on each 
Foot, before and behind, all arm’d with fharp Claws, likethofe of Squirrels; the In- 
fides of the Paws are black Skin, the Skin is alfo Black all the Body over, and under the 
white Hair on the Belly. What is very wonderful in this little Animal is, that it 
hath a foft, whiffling Note, fomething refembling the Singing of a Canary-Bird : It is 
very brifk and nimble, and has all the Curiofity and comical Addons of the greater 
Monkeys. When it prances about a Room on all its four Legs, and plays its Tail 
over its Back, it has very much the Air of a little Lion, and appears fometimes as 
figur’d in Little on the Ground-Work of the Print. 
I was informed by the Right Honourable the Countefs of Suffolk (in w’hofe Pofieflion 
the above defcribed Animal is) that it was brought from La Vera Cruz , in New-Spain. 
By the above Lady’s Permiffion, I made a Draught of-it for the late Duke of Richmond , 
and by his Grace’s Leave I have publifhed this Figure. In a Voyage down the River 
of Amazons , by Mr. de la Condamine , of the Academy of Sciences of Paris , I find a 
Monkey defcribed very much like the above, except that he gives it fharp Ears. After 
fpeaking of the larger Monkeys, he fays, <c and fome again as fmall as Rats; I 
<c fpeak not of thofe known under the Name of Sapajous , but of others yet lefs, and 
“ difficult to be tamed, whofe Hair is long and bright, generally of a Chefnut-Co- 
cc lour, and fometimes fpotted with a Sort of Yeliow ; their Tails are twice as long 
“ as their Bodies j their Heads fmall and fquare, their Ears fharp and prominent, 
e< like thofe of Dogs and Cats, and not like other Apes or Monkeys, whom they 
4C refemble very little, having more the Air and Look of a little Lion : They are 
sc called Pinches at^Maynas, and Lamarius at Cayenne.” See the Abridgment of the 
above Voyage in Englifh , P. 83. If this defcribed by Mr. de la Condamine be not the 
fame with mine, it muft be a Species near of Kin to it. 
fhe 
