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length of the body, arched at the end ; the nails are flat and 
rounded ; the haunches are red, and the animal is from four 
to five feet high. 
21. Simia veter, or lowando. The beard is black; the 
body is white. There is a variety with a white beard.—It is 
found in Ceylon, is wild, ferocious and mischievous. The 
tusks of this species are long and large; the head is sur¬ 
rounded with a broad mane; the body is long and taper¬ 
ing ; it is between three and four feet high. 
22. Simia siliens, or wanderu.—The beard of this animal 
is long and black ; and the body is black. There are three 
other varieties of this species. The first has a bushy beard, 
is found in Ceylon, and other parts of India. The second is 
of a jet black colour ; the beard is white, and very long: 
it inhabits Guinea, and is about two feet high. The third 
has a white beard, which is triangular, short and pointed, 
extending on each side beyond the ears.—It inhabits Ceylon, 
is harmless, and lives in the woods; it feeds on leaves and 
buds, and is easily tamed; the body is black; the face and 
hands are purple; the tail is long, ending in a dirty white 
tuft. 
23. Simia faunus, or malbrouck.—This species isbearded ; 
the tail is bushy at the end.—It is an inhabitant of Bengal; 
the face is grey; the eyes are large; the eye-lids are flesh- 
coloured; forehead with a grey band, instead of eye-brows; 
the ears are large, thin, flesh-coloured; body is blackish; 
the breast and the belly are white; the beard is hoary and 
pointed: it is scarcely a foot high. 
24. Simia cynomolgus, or long-tailed beardless monkey, 
with callosities behind, rising bifid nostrils, and arched tail. 
—This by Pennant is called the hare-lipped monkey, who 
includes in the species the cynomolgus and cynocephalus of 
Linnaeus. It is of a thick clumsy form, resembling the Bar¬ 
bary ape, except in having a long tail. It varies in size very 
greatly; some specimens scarcely exceed the size of a cat, 
while others are full as large as a grey-hound. The colour 
also is various, being sometimes olive-brown, at other times 
grey-brown. The head is large; the eyes are small; the 
nose thick, flat and wrinkled; on each side the tail is a 
bare space; the under sides of the body, and the insides of 
the limbs, of a light ash-colour.—-It is a native of Guinea 
and Angola. The nostrils are divided like those of a hare. 
25. Simia cynocephalus, or dog-monkey.—This has no 
beard: it is of a yellowish colour, has a projecting mouth, 
a straight tail, and bald haunches.—It is found in divers 
parts of Africa, and resembles the simia inuus, except that it 
has a tail. 
26. Simia diana, or spotted monkey.—This species is 
bearded; the forehead is projecting; the beard is pointed. 
This is described by Mr. Pennant as of a middling size, and 
of a reddish colour on the upper parts, as if singed, and 
marked with white specks; the belly and chin whitish; the 
tail is long. According to Linnaeus, it is of the size of a 
large cat, and is black, spotted with white; the hind part of 
the back is ferruginous ; the face is black; from the top of 
the nose is a white line, passing over each eye to the ears in 
an arched direction. 
27. Simia sabsea, or green monkey.—This animal has no 
beard; it is a yellowish-green colour ; the face is black ; 
the tail is grey; the haunches naked.—It inhabits the Cape 
de Verd islands, the Cape of Good Hope, and other neigh¬ 
bouring countries. The body in the upper parts is a mix¬ 
ture of grey, green and yellowish ; throat, breast, belly and 
thighs are -white; the hairs are long and reversed: the 
eye-brows are black and bristly; the tail is straight, as 
long as the body, and hoary; the feet are cinereous; the 
nails round, those of the hands ovate. It is about the size of 
a cat. 
28. r Simia cephus, or moustache.—Tailed; cheeks bearded; 
crown yellowish ; feet black ; tail rusty at the point.—It in¬ 
habits Guinea. The body above is brown ; beneath it is of 
a blueish-white; the head with white erect hairs ; eye-brows 
with a white transverse arch; upper eye-lids white ; hair on 
the cheeks standing out; the mouth is blueish; under the 
ears are two large tufts of yellow hairs, like mustachios. 
29. Simia aethiops, or white eye-lidded monkey.—This is 
without tail and beard; the fore-top is white, erect; the 
arch of the forehead is white. There is a variety, of which 
the neck and cheeks are surrounded with a broad collar of 
white hair.—It is found in Madagascar. Its face is thick and 
broad; the eyes are surrounded by a prominent ring; the 
eye-lids are naked, very white; the ears are black, almost 
naked; the tail is arched, covered with long bushy hair : it 
is about eighteen inches high. 
30. Simia aygula, or egret.—This is tailed ; the beard is 
scanty; the colour is grey; crown with an erect tuft of hair 
reversed longitudinally.—It inhabits India and Java. The 
body is a good deal like that of a wolf; the throat, breast, 
and belly whitish; the tail is longer than the body, cine¬ 
reous and tapering ; the face is flattish, whitish, naked; the 
nose is depressed, short, and distant from the mouth, with a 
double furrow on the upper lip; the cheeks are a little 
bearded; the hairs are turned back ; the eye-brows are gib¬ 
bous, bristly, prominent; the feet are black, semi-palmate: 
the nails of the thumbs and great toes are rounded, the rest 
oblong ; the ears are pointed; an arched suture from the ears 
towards the eyes.and back to the base of the lower jaw, and 
a longitudinal seam on the fore-arm. There is a variety that 
has a rounder head ; the face is less black; the body is of a 
paler brown. 
31. Simia nictitans.—Tailed, beardless, black, sprinkled 
with pale spots; the nose is white; the thumb very short; 
the haunches are covered. This is called the nodding mon¬ 
key. There is a variety of it having a long white beard.—It 
inhabits Guinea, is playful, and continually nodding its 
head ; the face is hairy ; the mouth short; the orbits naked; 
the irids of a pale yellow ; the hair is black, with a few pale 
rings ; lips and chin whitish; the tail is straight, cylindrical, 
longer than the body; the thumb is no longer than the first 
joint of the fore-finger. 
32. Simia sin ica, or Chinese monkey.—Tailed, beardless; 
fore-top horizontally placed, and shading the whole head. 
There is a fore-top erect, having the appearance of a round 
black bonnet; the body is brown ; the legs and arms black. 
—This species is found in Bengal, and the variety in India. 
The tail is longer than the body ; the nails of the thumbs and 
great toes are rounded, the rest oblong; the upper parts of 
the body are pale brown, and mixed with yellow ; the lower 
whitish. It is about the size of a rat. 
33. Simia nemaeus, or Cochin-china monkey.—This is 
without tail and beard; the cheeks are bearded ; and the tail 
white.—It inhabits, asits trivial name imports, Cochin-china: 
also Madagascar, and other places. The face and ears are 
of a light red; the forehead is marked with a double 
brown band, covered with black hair ; the hair surrounding 
the face is whitish, mixed with yellow; neck, on the upper 
part, with a wreath of the same colour as that of the fore¬ 
head ; the shoulders and upper parts of the arms black; 
hands and groin whitish; thighs on the upper part and 
toes black; feet to the knees brown; it is from two to 
four feet high. From this species is procured the bezoar of 
the ape. 
34. Simia mona, or varied monkey.—This species is tailed 
and bearded ; it has a prominent, whitish-grey, semi-lunar 
arch over the eye-brows.—It inhabits Morocco, and the 
warmer parts of Asia ; is gentle, docile and patient of cold. 
The head is smail and round; the face is bright, and of a 
tawny brown; the hair on the crown is yellow, mixed with 
black ; it has a dark.band from the eyes to the ears, and to 
the shoulders and arms; tail is greyish-brown; the rump is 
marked with two white spots on each side. It is eighteen 
inches high. 
35. Simia rubra, or red monkey.—This species is tailed and 
bearded; the cheeks are bearded; the crown, the back, and 
the tail, are of a deep blood.red. There are two other 
varieties; the first has a yellow beard; the band over the 
eyes is black: the second has a white beard ; the band over 
the eyes is white. This is found in Senegal, Congo, and 
other hot parts of Africa. The crown is flat; the body and 
legs are long; the hair on the upper parts is of a bright red, 
beneath 
