The Hijlory ANIMALS. 
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Simla caudata aurihus genubufque barbatis . 
The tailed Simla , with tufts of hair at the ears and knees. 
This, when erebt, is two feet fix inches high : the head is large, oblong, and de~ 
prefled5 the forehead is fomewhat prominent, but lefs fo than in moft fpecies 3 the 
nofe is flatted, and the tip of it turns very little up5 the noftrils are wide and oval 3 
the eyes are large and black 5 the ears are low and broad, but they have each a tuft of 
hair or fur, longer than that of the body, and of a pale greyifh-brown colour, which 
gives a very Angular appearance to the face: the body is flender 3 the legs are long 
and flender 5 the hinder feet are formed very much in the manner of the human 
hand, and the fore-ones have fomewhat, but lefs, of that appearance 3 the toes being 
fhorter, and the inner one, which reprefents the thumb, is very fhort and inconfide- 
rable, and not placed at a difiance, as the thumb of the human hand. 
The fur is of a very bright and beautiful brown, with a tinge of a tawny yellow : 
there are tufts of hair at the knees of all the legs, as well the hinder ones as the others, 
like thofe of the ears, and of the fame greyifh-brown colour 3 the tail is long. 
This is a native of the Brafiis, and is fometimes brought into Europe. Marcgrave 
and Pifo have defcribed it. It is common in the woods there, and it’s tufted knees dif- 
tinguifh it at fight from all the other fpecies. 
Simla capite comofo. 
The hairy-headed Simla . 
This is fufficiently ugly, but the refemblance which the long hair of the head gives 
it to the human face is very firiking, and indeed /hocking. It is of the larger kind: 
when erebt, as it very frequently walks by choice, it is near three feet high : the head 
appears large, by means of the hair, but it is not, in reality, any bigger than ufual in 
the other fpecies: the face is oval and naked 5 it is of a tawny colour, much like that 
of fome of the darkefi of the Moors: the hair falls down the fides of it, as that of 
the human head, and is of an extreamly dark colour 3 the. eyes are black and promi¬ 
nent 3 the forehead is rounded 5 the bafe of the nofe is deprefled, and it’s end turned 
up, as in molt of the other fpecies. 
The body is not bulky 3 the hinder legs are robuft, but the fore-ones are flender : 
the feet are formed more like the human hand, than thofe of any other fpecies: the 
back is of a deep olive brown 3 the breaft has fomewhat of a tawny hue, mixed with 
the olive colour 5 the belly has fome little admixture of a whitifh or greyifh, but the 
dufky brownifh olive is the reigning colour throughout 3 the tail is moderately long. 
This is a native of the Eaft 5 it is frequent alfo in fome parts of Africa. Profper 
Alpinus and fome others have defcribed it 5 but the generality of thofe who have 
done fo, feem not to have feen it. We had one in great perfection fhewn in Lon¬ 
don, in the year 1751, under the name of a Man-Tyger, from which this defcription 
was taken. 
Simla caudata , barb at a cauda feminuda . 
The bearded Simia, with the tail half naked . 
This is a Angular and an ugly fpecies 3 it feldom fiands erebt, but, when it does, the 
height is about two feet three inches: the head is fhort and oval 3 the eyes are fmall, 
and have a kind of a fleepy afpebt, as in the Ignavus or floth the ears are low, 
broad, and naked 5 the nofe is broken down, as it were, at the bafe, and turns up a£ 
the end : the nofirils are frightfully patulous j the mouth is wide, and the teeth are 
numerous and large : the beard is compofed of moderately long, rigid, and thick-fet 
hairs, and gives a very Angular afpebt to the creature : the body is more bulky or cor¬ 
pulent 
