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and fhort on the bread: and belly, though very thick and long on the back ; it is of a 
tawny olive, with an admixture of black on the back * and paler on the belly: the 
legs are long and {lender* and the head in walking hangs down in a remarkable 
manner. 
It is a native of many parts of the Eaft, and is a fullen, fulky animal, Profper 
Alpinus calls it Simia acauda rufo-nigricans* but this is not cxadly the colour of that 
which I faw. 
Simia cauda brevi, ore vibrijfato . 
The whijkered Simia y with a very Jhort tail. 
3S3)e Gaboon. 
This is confiderably different from all the preceding fpecies: the head is large, and 
hairy on the hinder part, but the face is naked ; the eyes are fmall and depreffed 5 the 
nofe is flat, and the noflrils wider ; it is, upon the whole, remarkably ugly in it’s af- 
ped: the body is bulky, and the legs are ftrong, but not fo long as in the feveral for¬ 
mer fpecies: the buttocks are large and flefhy, and there Is at their bafe the rudiment 
of a tail, but it is very fhort and inconfiderable : the back is of a dark olive ; the belly 
is paler. The creature ufually walks on all fours, but it can occafionally ftand on the 
hinder feet only, with great facility. 
It is a native both of the Eaft and Weft Indies, and is often brought alive into Eu¬ 
rope : it is a large kind, and, when ered, makes a very awkward appearance 5 the mouth 
is, in a very particular manner, furnifhed with whilkers, which feem to impede the 
eating, rather than to be of any real ufe to the creature. Many of the writers on 
quadrupeds have defcribed it under the name of Papio, and Papio major. 
Simia caudata imberbis auribus comojis . 
The tailed Simia , with hairy ears . 
This is a Angular fpecies, and is lefs ugly than the preceding, though very far from a 
beauty; it frequently walks on the hinder legs, and, when ered, is about two feet and 
a half high: the face is oblong, flatted, naked up to the forehead, and of a blackifti 
colour, but with fome tinge of yellow : the eyes are large, prominent, and hazel * the 
noftriis are wide; the mouth is well furnifhed with teeth, and the ears are broad, low, 
and hairy : the legs are long and flender, and the tail is longer than they, and, when 
the creature ftands ered, draggles on the ground : the fur is fhort, but foft and 
gloffy ; it is of a dufky tawny-yellow on the back, and brown, but with fome tinge 
of yellow, on the beky ; the feet are black. \ 
This is a native of the Eaft, and is frequent in the woods there. Alpinus and fome 
other writers have defcribed it, but it has feldom been feen alive in Europe, 
Simia caudata , imberbis , fufca , unguibus pollicum fubrotundis\ 
The long-tailed , brown Simia , with the claws rounded\ 
This is often feen ered, and is, in that pofture, conflderably more than two feet 
high : the head is fhort, rounded, and confiderably large ; the forehead is prominent * 
the eyes are large and black; the nofe is depreffed, and the noftriis are large : the 
colour of the naked fkin of the face is a deep colour, between blue and purple, but 
fo dark, that the whole appears at a fmall diftance black : the ears are fhort and broad ; 
the back is of a deep brown colour; the fur long and gloffy: the legs are long and 
flender; the feet, and particularly the hinder ones, have very much the appearance of 
hands, and the claw of the fhorter toe, whicli refembles the thumb, is very broad 
and rounded. 
This is frequent in the woods of China, and many other parts of the Eaft 5 it is 
eafily tamed, and becomes very familiar and tradable, but full of tricks. Some of the 
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