THE MACAQUE MONKEY, &c. 171 



This, indeed, is the most laudable trait of their disposition. Both 

 the male arid female alternately fondle the little cub in their arms, 

 and endeavour to instruct it in all their own sagacious arts and 

 frolicsome pranks. If the bantling appear disinclined to profit 

 by their example, or refuse to imitate their actions, the parents 

 overcome its obstinacy by well-applied chastisement. 



The general food of this tribe of animals is fruit, buds of 

 trees, or succulent roots and plants. Their method of managing 

 an oyster is curious, and very entertaining to those who have an 

 opportunity of witnessing their dexterity. The moment that the 

 monkey sees the shells of the oyster a little opened, the crafty 

 creature slips a stone between them, to prevent them from closing 

 again, and then with its hand takes out the fish. 



Of monkeys, naturalists have discovered above fifty different 

 species : we shall therefore mention only a few of the most re- 

 markable. 



THE MACAQUE, OR HAIR-LIPPED MONKEY. 



This animal is a native of Guinea, Congo, and the more south- 

 ern parts of Africa. In size and strength, it nearly resembles 

 the baboon : its nostrils are divided, like those of the hare : its 

 visage is naked, ugly, and wrinkled ; and its aspect, ferocious 

 and disgusting. This kind is subdivided into several varieties, 

 different both in size and colour. They are all, however, equally 

 destructive in cultivated grounds, for being extremely nice ; i 

 their choice, they do more damage by pulling up what does not 

 please them, than by the quantity which they devour. 



THE PATAS, OR RED MONKEY, 



Is nearly of the same size with the macaque, and a native of 

 the same country, but is much less frightful in its appearance, 

 its aspect being more agreeable, and its hair of a bright red. 

 These plunder plantations and corn-fields, like the former, and 

 use the same precautions of placing sentinels, which most of the 

 ape, baboon, and monkey tribes, adopt. 



THE CATITRIX, OR GREEN MONKEY, 



Is a beautiful animal. On the back and tail, it is of a fine 

 green colour; and the throat and belly are of an elegant silver 

 white. It is common in the Cape de Verd islands, in the north 

 of Africa, and in many parts of the East Indies. 



When Mr. Addison was in Africa, he killed twenty-three of 

 this species, not one of which uttered the slightest cry, though 

 they had previously assumed a threatening aspect, and ground 

 their teeth at him as if in defiance. 



