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colour ; they are distributed all over the African con- 

 tinent, live in large troops, and commit serious depreda- 

 tions in cultivated places ; many of them are easily tamed ; 

 they are of moderate size, and in leaping from tree to 

 tree display wonderful activity. We give, as an example, 

 a figure of the Long-nosed Monkey, or Kahau, so called 

 from its cry. 



The Magots Inuus) have the tail reduced to a mere rudiment. 

 The common species, Inuus sylcanus, covered entirely with a 

 brownish grey hair, although a native of Barbary, is met with on 

 the sjuthern coast of Spain, and has taken complete possession of 

 the most inaccessible part of the rock of Gibraltar. It is the only 

 animal of the order Quadrumana that inhabits Europe. It is easily 

 taught, when young, to perform various tricks, and is frequently 

 exhibited in our streets. 



The Gibbons (Hylobates *) have callosities upon the 

 hinder parts of their bodies, but have neither a tail nor 

 cheek-pouches. They are found in the remotest parts of 

 the continent of India, and the adjacent islands, where 

 they inhabit dense and impenetrable forests. 



The Siamang (Simla f syndacfyla X) differs from the other Gibbons 

 in having tlie second and third toes of the hhider limb partially 

 joined together by a narrow fold of skin. These Apes live together 

 in numerous bands. During the day they remain silent, concealed 

 among the foliage of the trees, but in the early morning and evening, 

 they make the woods to resound with their discordant and frightful 

 cries. They seem to live under the guidance of active and vigilant 

 chiefs. All take alarm at the slightest sound that they do not 

 understand, and escape into the recesses of the forest. 



The Gorilla [Troglodi/tes ^ gorilla) inhabits, so far as is at present 

 known, a district extending to about two hundred miles north, and 

 the same distance south, of the equator, and ranging, perhaps, to 

 tliree hundred miles from the western coast of Africa. Of specimens 

 shot by M. Du Chaillu, the largest male seems to have been at least 

 six feet two inches in height, so that, making allowance for the 

 shortness of the lower limbs, the dimensions of a full-grown male 

 may be said to equal those of a man of eight or nine feet high; and 

 it is only in their length that the lower limbs are disproportionate 

 to the gigantic trunk ; in the tiiickness and solidity of their bones, 

 and in the strength of their muscles, these limbs are quite in keeping 

 with the rest of the body, Wheu in an upright position, the arms of 

 the Gorilla reach to its knees; the hind hands arc wide and of 



* D'Atj, ule, a wood or forest ; fialvca, baino, to go or traverse. 



t (niuL6s, simos, flat-nosed. 



X (Tvv, syn, together loith ; Sa/crvAos, dactylos, a finger or toe — 

 having conjoined toes. 



§ TpcoyXT], trogle, a hole or cave ; Sua;, duo, to enter— one icho hides 

 in caverns. 



