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use there. These shields have gone out of use since the style of 

 armor has been changed, and it is now molested but little, and 

 leads a peaceful life away from the dwellings of men. " In Galla- 

 land, whence your specimens have come/' Menges writes to me, 

 " the gucreza lives in the thick woods, especially in deep, moist, and 

 warm mountain gorges. It prefers a home in the giant sycamore 

 trees, or wild figs, the fruits of which constitute its principal food. 

 The Abyssinian juniper, which is from twenty-five to thirty me- 

 tres high, and forms whole forests there, is also much resorted to 

 by it." Brehm, relying upon the unanimity of the accounts which 

 have appeared since the discovery of the guereza by the Abyssin- 

 ian traveler Riippell, of Frankfort, enthusiastically praises the 

 beauty, gracefulness, and elegance of the outward appearance of 

 the animal and the agility and grace of its motions, especially its 

 colossal leap, in which the body seems to be carried along by its 

 waving robe. Hans Meyer unconsciously complements this sketch 

 with a description of the quiet, still life of the societies of four or 

 five members in the secure height of their tree-top, and in con- 

 nection with it mentions a habit not to my knowledge observed 

 before, by which the presence of a band of guerezas can be recog- 

 nized from a distance. It is a monotonous, sing-song humming, 

 with an alternating crescendo and diminuendo, proceeding from 

 the members of the families sitting lazily together, and to all 

 appearance expressive of complete satisfaction. Perhaps it was 

 because of the absence of this satisfaction that I never heard this 

 humming from my pets. They usually kept themselves quite 

 still, and were accustomed only to greet their beloved greens with 

 a peculiar cry toned between the whimper of the capuchin and 

 the crowing of the young mandrill. With this we have come 

 to the end of our observations on these two peculiar families of 

 monkeys which have been crowded away into the background in 

 our zoological gardens by their livelier, more striking, and more 

 hardy congeners. But we hope that what we have said of their 

 remarkable organization will be enough to make them seem 

 worthy of some attention from the animal -loving reader. Trans- 

 lated for The Popidar Science Monthly from Die Gartenlaube. 



One of the incentives that send explorers so often back to their work was 

 described by Captain Younghusband after relating to the English Society of Arts 

 the story of his experiences in the Pamirs. Like most travelers, he said, he bad 

 often thought he should not go again on such arduous adventures ; but when the 

 traveler returned to his native country, and saw that an interest was taken in 

 what he had done, and that people would still be interested in further journeys he 

 might make, he felt his energies renewed and was quite willing to undergo the 

 hardships which must necessarily befall him, feeling that he was doing something 

 for his government and his country. 



