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Habits. — The Crab-eating Macaque is gregarious, going about 

 in troops of fifteen to twenty, of both sexes and all ages. They 

 frequent the forests near the river mouths, and coastal man- 

 grove swamps, where they may be constantly seen wading 

 about in the mud, picking up Shrimps and Crabs, which are 

 their favourite food. Tickell says that they swim and dive 

 well. The females are easily trained, and also the young 

 males ; but these, when old, are apt to become ill-natured and 

 uncertain in disposition. The mothers are good and tender 

 to their young one, which clings closely with hands and feet for 

 the first few weeks to the hair of the chest or arm-pits and 

 abdomen. 



Mr. Everett met with this species in the islands of Sirhassen 

 and Bunguran in the Natuna group, where he says they were 

 abundant. He adds : " They come down in large parties to 

 the sea-shore, sitting in groups on the larger boulders, or play- 

 ing and hunting for prey along the sands, when the tide is out. 

 In mature animals, the face, hands, and feet are dark brown ; 

 the lower eyelids a paler brown ; the upper eyelids and upper 

 halves of the orbits whitish. In a very young male the bare 

 skin of the face was livid brown, rather paler on the eyelids, 

 and the hands and feet were dark brown" {Oldfield Thomas 

 and Hartert^ Nov. Zool, i., p. 654, 1894). 



XVI. THE TOQUE MACAQUE. MACACUS PILEATUS. 



Simla pileata^ Shaw, Gen. Zool., i., p. 53 (1800). 

 Cercocehus si?iicus^ Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 98 (181 2) 

 Macacus sinicus^ Desm., Mamm., p. 64 (1820) ; Kela?rt, Fauna 

 Zeyl., p. 8 (1852). 



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