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the fields will immediately enter at the other, and 
carry off with them as much as their mouth and 
arms can hold. Bofman fpeaking of the thefts of 
the monkies of Guinea , fays, that they will take in 
each paw one or two ftalks of millet, as many under 
their arms, and two or three in their mouth *, and 
thus laden, hop away on their hind legs; but if pur* 
fued, fling away all, except what is in their mouths, 
that it may not impede their flight: they are very 
nice in their choice of the millet, examine every 
ffalk, and if they do not like it, fling it away; fo 
this delicacy does more harm to the fields than their 
thievery. 
Varied. Arift. hijl. An. xxxVi. 
Monne ? Leo Afr. 342. Cercopithecus pilis ex nigro et 
Monichus Profp. Alp. JEgypt* 1 . rufo variegatis veftibus, jpedibus 
242. ftigris, caudi cinerea. Le fnge 
La Mone de Buff on, xiv. 258. tab. varie. Briffon quad, 141. 
M. with a fliort thick nofe, of a dirty flefh color: 
hair on the fldes of the face, and under the throat, 
long *, the color yellow and black; on the forehead, 
grey : above the eyes, from ear to ear, a black line : 
the upper part of the body dufky and red : the belly 
whitifli: outflde of the thighs, and the feet, black * 
the tail of a cinereous brown: length, about a foot 
and a half ; the tail, above two. 
Inhabits Barbary , ^Ethiopia , and other parts of 
Africa: is the kind Which gives the name of Mon¬ 
key to the whole tribe, from the African word Mom 
* Vey. Guinea, 243, 
