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afterwards decreased to one-half. They are extremely susceptible to 
cold. In confinement they are quiet and gentle whilst young, but the 
old males are generally sullen and treacherous. Jerdon says, on the 
authority of the Bengal Sporting Magazine (August 1836), that the males 
live apart from the females, who have only one or two old males with 
each colony, and that they have fights at certain seasons, when the 
vanquished males receive charge of all the young ones of their own sex, 
with whom they retire to some neighbouring jungle. Blyth notices 
that in one locality he found only males of all ages, and in another 
Presbytes entellus, 
chiefly females. I have found these monkeys mostly on the banks of 
streams in the forests of the Central Provinces ; in fact, the presence of 
them anywhere in arid jungles is a sign that water is somewhere in the 
vicinity. They are timid creatures, and I have never seen the slightest 
disposition about them to show fight, whereas I was once most delibe- 
rately charged by the old males of a party of A/esws monkeys. I was 
at the time on field service during the Mutiny, and, seeing several 
nursing mothers:in the party, tried to run them down in the open and 
secure a baby ; but they were too quick for me, and, on being attacked 
by the old males, Ivhad to pistol the leader. 
