9 s 
APE. 
thefe animals may vary in fize and in color, fome 
being covered with black, others with reddilh hairs. 
Not the Satyrs of the antients, which had tails % 
and were a fpecies of monkey. Linnaeus’s Homo 
notturmiSi an animal of this kind, unneceflarily fepa- 
rated from his Simla Satyr us. Some of the authori¬ 
ties in the Am^en Acad. very doubtfull. Sir John Man - 
deville , p. 361, certainly meant this large fpecies, 
when he fays he came to another yle where the Folk 
ben alle Jkynned roughe heer , as a rough beft , faf only 
the face s and the pawme of the bond. 
65. Pygmy. ILS>ixo?. Ariftot. hijl.an. lib.c.S. 
Simia Gefner quad . 847. Ratifyn. 
quad. 149. 
Ape 2d. fp. Bofmatis Guinea. 242. 
Le Singe. Simia unguibus om¬ 
nibus planis planis, et rotundatis 
Brijjon quad. 133. 
Le Pitheque de Buffon xix. 84. 
Simiafylvanus. S. ccaudatus, na- 
tibus cal vis capite rotundato. Lin. 
fyfi • 34 * 
A. with a flattifli face: ears like thofe of a man : 
body of the fize of a cat: color above of an olive 
brown, beneath yellowifli : nails flat * buttocks nak¬ 
ed : fits upright. 
Inhabits Africa. Not uncommon in our exhibi¬ 
tions of animals : very tradable, and good-natur’d : 
moft probably the pygmy^of the antients. Abounds 
in ^Ethiopia **, one feat of that imaginary nation : 
* JElian gives them tails, lib. Pliny fays they have 
teeth like dogs, lib . vii. c. 2. circumftances common to many mon¬ 
kies. Ptolotny lib. vii. c. 2. fpeaks of certain iflands in the Indian 
ocean, inhabited by people with tails like thofe with which Satyrs 
are painted, whence called the ifles of Satyrs. Keepings a Suede , 
pretended to have difeovered thefe Homines Caudati , that they would 
have trafficked with him, offering him live parrots; that afterwards 
they killed fome of the crew that went on more, and eat them, &c. 
&c. Amcen Acad. vi. 71. 
** Ludolph . JEthiop. 57. 
were 
