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Old World, save the gorilla, chimpanzee, and orang, 

 which have them not. Neither have any American 

 apes, which, more decorous than their Transatlantic 

 brethren, have that region of the body copiously clothed 

 with hair. 



Leaving now the anthropoid apes, with which alone 

 we have been hitherto occupied, we find when we pass to 

 the next group of monkeys a remarkably different aspect 

 and a very different form of body. The limbs are nearly 

 of equal length, but the arms are now the shorter ones, 

 so that a quadrupedal mode of progression on the ground 

 is natural to them. Nevertheless, they are arboreal 

 animals, and both adroit climbers and dexterous jumpers. 

 They are aided in keeping their balance during their 

 movements by the possession of a long tail. 



The first group of these monkeys is one which is found 

 only in central and south-eastern Asia, and consists of 

 many species which also have their headquarters in the 

 Indian Archipelago. They are not very often seen in 

 captivity save that well-known kind, the entellus monkey 

 or hounaman, which is an object of such religious vene- 

 ration on the part of the Hindoos. It has a coat of 

 whitish hair but a jet-black face, and once seen is not 

 likely to be forgotten. The largest and by far the most 

 singular species of the group, however, has never been 

 seen alive in Europe. It is exclusively a native of 

 Borneo, where it can hardly be common, since, though it 

 was figured and described by Buffon in 1789, it has 

 found its way to no menagerie. This very remarkable 

 beast is the kahau or proboscis monkey (Fig. 2), which 

 differs from every other ape in having a long projecting 

 nose. Two fine stuffed specimens of this creature are to be 

 seen in the British Museum, one young, the other adult. 

 The young of this species instead of having a nose similar 



