MONKEYS FROM A COLD CLIMATE. 66g 



of coloration. In the former the side of tlie neck is gray rather than 

 yellowish, and the tail is of a dull and uniform color. In the young 

 monkeys the skull-cap is small, and the sides of the face are ornament- 

 ed witli a sort of whiskers, wliich disappear in the adult. 



The natives give to the species the name of Kin-tsin-heou, i. e., 

 Brown-and-gold monkey. They hunt it for the sake of its skin, which 

 tliey use as a preventive against rheumatism. 



In the same region with the JRhmopithecvs there live in small 

 troojis, on the most inaccessible wooded declivities, other monkeys 

 who display extreme agility, and who hide in caves, like the Magots 

 or apes of Algeria or Gibraltar. These monkeys, it appears, were 

 once very common here, one old hunter having boasted, in the hear- 

 ino- of M. David, of havim? killed seven or eight hundred of them in 

 one year. Now, however, they are met with but seldom. With 

 their very short tail and the long hair covering their bodies, they re- 

 semble the Magot, properly so called, but they are heavy built, and 

 the face is longer. One individual, sent to the museum by the Abbe 

 David, is eighty centimetres (2 ft. 7-^ in.) in length ; his head is very 

 large compared to his body ; the face is bare and flesh-colored, dark- 

 er and mottled around the eyes, and brownish about the mouth. 

 Tufted whiskers of a bright gray adorn the sides of the head, and the 

 forehead and the crown of the head are covered with short hairs, of a 

 dull-brown color. The hair of the nape of the neck and of the shoul- 

 ders is nearly as long as that of the Moupin monkey, and dark in 

 color. The breast and belly are grayish. The anterior hands are 

 small, while the posterior hands are well developed and heavily cov- 

 ered with hair on the upper surface. The tail is rudimentary, and 

 the callosities well mai'ked. 



The female is smaller than the male ; her skin is of a more uniform 

 color, and softer, and her whiskers are not at all so long. 



This species, called by Alplionse Milne-Edwards Macacus Thiheta- 

 nus, would seem to be far more brutish than the preceding, for in the 

 male the bony ridges of the skull are very prominent, and resemble 

 those seen in the head of the gorilla. 



In a species from Cochin-China, discovered by David, and de- 

 scribed by Isidore Geoffrey St.-Hilaire, under the name of Macaque 

 oursin, the cranium presents similar ridges, but far less developed. 

 From the information gathered by M. David, it would appear that 

 there exist in Eastern Tibet at least two other species of large, long- 

 tailed monkeys ; of these, the one is said to be of a greenish-yellow 

 color, and the other of a deep black. La JVature. 



