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‖ patas|pəˈtɑː|
[F. patas, from a dialect of Senegal.]
The red monkey (Cercopithecus patas) of West Africa.
1745New Collect. Voy. (Astley) II. 68 The Sieur Brue, on his anchoring at Tuabo [in 1698], found a new kind of monkeys, of so lively a red, that they seemed painted..The Negros called them Patas. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. vii. i. 505. 1790 T. Bewick Quadrupeds (1824) 466 The Patas, or Red Monkey,..inhabits the same country [Guinea, Congo, &c.]. 1893Royal Nat. Hist. (Lydekker) I. 98 The West African patas, or red monkey, from Senegambia. |