MONK 1 E S. 
when the whole affembly joins in chorus ^ but on 
another fignal, is filent, and the orator families 
his addrefs* ** : their clamor is the moil difagreeable 
and tremendous that can be conceived, owing to a 
hollow and hard bone placed in the throat, which 
the Englijh call the throttle bone *'*. Thefe mon- 
kies are very fierce, untameable and bite dreadfully. 
Royal. Cercopithecns bar- Simia feniculus. S. caudata bar- 
batus maximus, ferruginofus, bata rufa, cauda prehenfili. 
ftertorofus. Alaoiita , fiiige Lin.fyf. 37. 
rouge. Barr ere France JEquin. Arabata Gumilla Orenoque , II. 8. 
150. Bancroft Guiana, 135. 
Cercopithecns barbatns faturate L’Allouatte. de Buff on, xiv. 5. 
rufus. Briffonquad. I47. 
A variety of a ferruginous or reddifh bay color, 
which the Indians j- call the king of the monkies: 
is large, and as noify as the former: the natives eat 
this ipecies, and feveral other forts of monkies, 
but are particularly fond of this; Europeans will 
alfo eat it, efpecially in thofe parts of America where 
food is fcarce : when it is Icalded in order to get 
off the hair, it looks very vrhite, and has a refern- 
blance Shocking to humanity, that of a child of 
two or three years old, when trying 
* A lingular account, yet related by Marcgrawe and feveral ofher 
writers. Marcgra<ve is a writer of the firft authority, and a moft 
able naturalift, long refident in the Brafils , and fpeaks from his own 
knowlege. 
** Grew s Rarities, II. 
t De Laet. 486. 
t Ulloas, <voy, I. Des Marchais III. 311. fays, they are ex¬ 
cellent eating, and that a foupe aux fnges will be fdtind as good as 
any other, as foon as you have conquered the averlion to the Bouilli 
of their heads, which look very like thofe of little children. 
Cercopithecut 
