M O N K I E S. 
tail not fo long as the body : whole length is about 
one foot fix inches. 
M. de Buffon gives a variety of this fpecies, tab . 
xxvi. with a white band crofs the face, which he 
calls be Bat as a bandeau blanc. 
Inhabits Senegal: is lefs active than the other 
kinds: very inquifitive: when boats are on their 
paffage on the river, will come in crowds to the ex¬ 
tremities of the branches, and feem to admire them 
with vaft attention: at length, will become fo fami¬ 
liar, as to throw pieces of flicks at the crew : if fhot 
at, will raife hideous cries ; fome will throw ftones, 
others void their excrements in their hands, and fling 
them among the paflfengers *, 
Barbot ** mentions another fort of red monkey, 
called in Guinea Beafants , becaufe of their ugly red 
hair and figure, and their natural ftink and nafti- 
nefs. 
Rillow Knox's Ceylon , 2.6. g 
Le Bonnet-Chinois. de Buffon, xiv, 190, tab.xxx. Br, Miff 
M. with a long fmooth nofe, of a whitifh color: 
hair on the crown of the head long, lying flat, and 
parted like that of a man: color, a pale cinereous 
brown. 
Inhabits Ceylon: keep in great troops; rob the 
gardens of fruit, and fields of the corn: the natives 
are obliged to watch the whole day •, yet thefe mon¬ 
kies are fo bold, that, when drove from one end of 
* De Brue , as quoted by M. de Buffon. 
*'* Defer . Guinea , 212. 
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