BONNET MACAQUE, OR MVNGA. 



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the word Macaco is the name which is given to all kinds of quadrumanous animals on the coast 

 of Guinea, and is almost synonymous with our own word monkey. 



One of the best typical examples of this genus is found in the BONNET MACAQUE, or 



MACAQUES. 



MUNGA, as it is often called. A native of Bengal and Ceylon, it is a frequent visitor to our 

 shores ; being tolerably hardy in constitution, bearing the long voyage well, and suffering less 

 from our insular climate than many of the monkey tribe. 



For the title of Bonnet it is indebted to the peculiar arrangement of the hairs on the crown 

 of tlie hend, which radiate in such a manner that they seem to form a kind of cap or bonnet. 



