74 QUADRUMANA. 



opposite views are held. Six or seven years ago they were reduced to 

 three ; but Sir William Codrington, fearing that they would entirely 

 perish, brought over three or four from Tangiers, and since then they 

 have increased to the number above stated." 

 Europe, therefore, has not yet lost her apes. 



VII.— GENUS CYNOPITHECUS. 



This genus has one species, Cynopithccus nigcr, which is assigned by 

 many writers to the genus Macacus : it resembles the Macaques, and 

 also has several characteristics of the Cynoccphali, and many naturalists 

 follow Cuvier in classing it with the latter. Recent investigations, how- 

 ever, have led most naturalists to make a separate genus of it as above. 



It differs from the Dog-heads proper by possessing a very rudimentary 

 tail, and in its muzzle, which is broad, flat, and, unlike that of the species in 

 the genus Cynoccphali, does not overhang the upper lip. The face and 

 callosities are bare, the body covered with long woolly black hair, which 

 on the head grows pretty long, and forms a kind of crest, which curves 

 backward over the neck like the crest of a cockatoo. The Budeng 

 (p. 44) also possesses a crest, but it curves forward. 



It attains the length of two feet, and is abundant in the Celebes, 

 Philippine and Molucca Islands. Its habits in its native abodes are little 

 known ; in captivity it shows itself domineering and tyrannical toward 

 the Guenons, pretty kind toward the Macaques, and quite friendly to a 

 young female baboon. 



