THE MACAQUES. 



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Habits. — Macacus pileatus closely resembles the Bonnel 

 Macaque in size, habits, and form. It is known to the Sing- 

 halese by the name of Rilawa. " The little graceful grimacing 

 Rilawa" as Sir J. Emerson Tennent writes, " is the universal 

 pet and favourite of both natives and Europeans. The Tamil 

 conjurers teach it to dance, and in their wanderings carry it 

 from village to village, clad in a grotesque dress, to exhibit its 

 lively performances. It does not object to smoke tobacco." 

 Knox, in his interesting account of the island, gives an accu- 

 rate description of the Rilawas, with " no beards, white faces, 

 and long hair on the top of their heads, which parteth and 

 hangeth down like a man's, and which do a deal of mischief to 

 the corn, and are so impudent that they will come into their 

 gardens and eat such fruit as grows there." 



XVII. THE BONNET MACAQUE. MACACUS SINICUS. 



Simia sinica, Linn., Mantissa, Plant., p. 521 (17 71). 

 Cercocebus radiatus, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 98 (181 2). 

 Le Toque male, F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat., Mamm., livr. xviii. 



(Juin, 1820). 

 Macams smicus, Blyth, J. A. S., Beng., xvi., p. 1272 (1847); 



Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 28 (1870); Anderson, 



Zool. Exped. Yun-nan, p. 91 (1878; with synonymy); 



Blanford, Faun. Brit. Ind., Mamm., p. 23 (1891). 

 Cercocebus siniais, Schl, Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 99 (1876). 



Characters. — Face nude; forehead thinly haired and wrin- 

 kled ; cheeks hollow ; muzzle narrow and protuberant ; ears 

 naked and rather prominent ; tail nearly as long as the body. 



Hair in general moderately long, straight and smooth, that 

 on the crown elongated and radiating in all directions from the 

 vertex, but not covering the forehead, on which the short and 



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