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YERTEBRATA : MAMMALIA. 



Of the tailed monkeys of the Eastern hemisphere, some 

 of the more interesting are the Semnopitheci or Solemn 

 FIG. 73. Apes, of Asia and the Asiatic Archi- 



pelago, one of which, the Kahau 

 (Fig. 73), is celebrated for its very 

 long nose; the Guenons, which 

 move in large troops and commit 

 great havoc in fields and gardens; 

 the Macacos, which have shorter 

 limbs and longer muzzle than the 

 Guenons ; and the Barbary Ape that 

 inhabits the precipitous sides of the 

 Eock of Gibraltar. The Catarrhiues 

 also include all the quadrumana known as Baboons, and 



FIG. 74. 



Kahau, Semnopithecits nasica, 

 Schreiber. 



Mandrill or Baboon, Cynocephatus. 



