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they go into the houses as well as into the gardens and steal, 

 plunder, and destroy at their hearts' desire. In many parts of 

 India they have become a real plague, and the English officers are 

 at times obliged, in order to limit the nuisance, to proceed against 

 the tail-wearing saints with destructive measures, to the joy of 

 the enlightened, intelligent natives, but to the disgust of the 



Fig. 2. Sacked Hulhan Monkeys of India. 



pious, who are obstinately convinced that the place where 

 a monkey is killed is unlucky forever afterward. 

 Another species of slender monkeys is distinguished by 

 a striking peculiarity which is expressed in their name 

 the proboscis monkeys. In their more vigorous and heav- 

 ier bodily structure they are more like the macacus monk- 

 eys, the principal and most numerous group of the family 

 in the Indo-Chinese region, and the one, too, to which the 

 mass of the population of our monkey-houses belong. 



The proboscis monkey (Semnopithecus. nasicus, Cuv.), in the 

 outer development of its nasal organ, so surpasses all the monkeys 

 and even all men that it has been set off as a distinct genus solely 

 on account of this feature. It lives in the island of Borneo. The 

 longitudinally furrowed, hook-shaped, flexible nose, impending 

 over the mouth and an inch broad in the middle, is peculiar to 

 the old male. Females and the young have instead of it only a 

 small, depressed pug-nose. The tufted monkeys also deserve to be 

 mentioned on account of their outward resemblance to the short- 

 thumbed monkeys, which is given them by the long, rich hairi- 



