220 MAMMALIA. 



FISHER MONKEV. 



Thi3 monkey is more numerous in individuals than any 

 other species in the Provinces. It abounds on the sea* 

 shores, and on the banks of inland streams, especially 

 on tide-waters, where it appears to draw a large portion 

 of its sustenance from the crabs, and shell-fish found on 

 the banks. Hence the Burmese have named it the " fish- 

 er monkey," and when the tide is out, a whole troop 

 is often seen issuing from the jungle to conchologize. 

 Some are observed turning over stones in diligent 

 search of shelUfish, others breaking up the shells they 

 have found to get at the animals within ; but most seem 

 to be in search of small crabs, and wherever the trace of 

 one appears, a monkey will thrust down his arm up to the 

 shoulder, if necessary > to draw it out of its hole. Fruits, 

 however, are as acceptable to them as shell-fish. On one 

 occasion, coming down close in-shore at the mouth of the 

 Tenasserim, a troop of them followed my boat for a con* 

 siderable distance, being attracted by the plantains that 

 we threw out, which they picked up and ate with great 

 avidity. 



The apes, that Solomon's fleet brought from Ophir, 

 Were probably monkeys of the genus to which this species 

 belongs. They abound in Hindustan, and their San- 

 scrit name is kapc. The Hebrews and Greeks appear 

 to have adopted the name by which the animals were 

 known in their native country, for they were called in 

 Hebrew koph, and in Greek kcephos, and kerbos, which 

 Scapula says, was an animal of the genus simia, " hav- 

 ing a tail — caudem habens ;" so they were not apes, as 

 the word is used in zoology, but monkeys. 



Cercopithecus cynomolgus, Ogilby. 



Simia cynomolgus, Linne- 



Simia aygula, Linne. 



Simia attys, Schreber. 



Macacus cynomolgus, Desmarest. 



Simia fascicularis, Raffles. 



Cercocebus aygula, Geoff, apud Horsfield, 



Inuus cercopithecus, Blyth. 



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