THE r.IACAQUES. 31 



Monkey is a caricature of the Tartar pendant into which they 

 twist their long black hair, and they invariably chop it off any 

 Monkey that comes into their possession. Hence the difficulty 

 of procuring Monkeys in China with perfect tails." 



XV. THE CRAB-EATING MACAQUE. MACACUS CYNOMOLOGUS. 



Simla cynomologus, Linn., Syst. Nat., i., p. 38 (1766) ; Schreber, 



Saugeth, i., p. 91, pi. xiii. (1775)- 

 Le Macaque^ F. Cuv., Hist. Nat., Mammif., livr. xxx., xxxi. 



(1819). 

 Macacus carbonarius, F. Cuv., Hist. Nat., Mamm. livr. xxxii. 



(Oct., 1825). 

 Macacus aureus^ Geoffr. in Belang. Voyage, Zool., p. 58 (1834). 

 Macacus philippensis^ Is. Geoffr., Cat. Meth Primates, p. 29 



(1851). 



Imcus (Afacacus) palpebrosuSjW dignQx in. Schreb. Saugeth, Suppl., 



v., p. 54 (1855). 

 Macacus fur, Slack, Proc. Acad. Sc. Philad., 1867, p. t,^, plate. 

 Macacus cristatus, Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Brit. Mus., p. 30 (1870). 

 Macacus assa?neusis, Gray, t. c, p. 31. 



Cercocehus cynojnologus, Schl.,Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. loi (1876). 

 Macacus cynomologus, Anderson, Zool. Exped. Yun-nan, p. 73 



(1878; with synonymy); Blanford, Faun. Brit. India 



Mamm., p. 21 (1891). 



Characters. — Body large and massive ; head large and broad ; 

 legs short and stout ; loins slender ; hinder quarters heavy ; tail 

 thick at the root, nearly equalling the body in length ; muzzle 

 long; nose not prominent above the face; eyes large; ears 

 erect, pointed, nearly hairless ; frontal ridges not much over- 

 hanging the eyes. 



Face pale brown, or livid with a bluish-white patch internal 



