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jumping from branch to branch. The discharge of a fowHng- 

 piece soon made them scurry away into the thicket, but every 

 now and again their heads would appear from the higher bushes, 

 watching the movements of the enemy. At last, when they 

 observed that our presence implied actual danger to themselves, 

 they climbed the hills and posted themselves about conspicuous 

 rocks, where they chattered and grunted out of danger. Their 

 cries are very like those of Macacus cyclopis of Formosa." 



The young clings to its mother's stomach for about a fort- 

 night after birth, and is nursed with the greatest care by her ; 

 after that time it is able to move about by itself, and it then.ce- 

 forward rapidly acquires the full use of its powers. 



Mr. Darwin records that the face of the M. rhesus, when 

 much enraged, grows red. When v/atching this species in the 

 Zoological Gardens, he says : " Another Monkey attacked a 

 Rhesus, and I saw its face redden as plainly as that of a Man 

 in a violent passion. In the course of a few minutes, after the 

 battle, the face of this Monkey recovered its natural tint. At 

 the same time that the face reddened, the naked posterior 

 part of the body, which is always red, seemed to grow still 

 redder, but I cannot positively assert that this was the case." 



XI. THE HAIRY-EARED MACAQUE. MACACUS LASIOTIS. 



Macacus lasiotis, Gray, P. Z. S., 1868, p. 61, pi. vi. ; id.. Cat. 



Monkeys, Brit. Mus., p. 129 (1870); Anders., Zool. 



Exped. Yun-nan, p. 83 (1878 ; with synonymy). 

 Macacus rhesus^ Sclater, P. Z. S., 187 1, p. 222. 

 Macacus eijihraus (nee Guv.), Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 



112 (1S76). 



Characters. — Very nearly allied to Macacus rhesus, from which 

 it differs in its larger size, more hairy tars, and more richly 



