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APES, MONKEYS, AND LEMURS 



allies, to the pig-tailed, and thence to the stump-tailed group. From the latter it is 

 but a step to the total loss of the tail ; and the magot, or Barbary macaque (the 

 Barbary ape of many authors), presents us with the culminating member of the 

 series. This total absence of a tail was long regarded as a reason for separating 

 the magot as a distinct genus from the other macaques ; but it is quite clear that 

 there is no sort of justification for this view. The species is represented in Fig. 4 

 of the colored plate, as well as in the illustration following. 



THE MAGOT. 

 (One-sixth natural size.) 



In addition to being the only tailless macaque, the magot is the sole existing 

 species of the group which is not Asiatic. The magot inhabits, indeed, the north- 

 west corner of Africa, in the districts of Morocco and Algeria, being especially 

 common in the latter country in the neighborhood of the city of Constantine. 

 It is also found across the Straits in Gibraltar, and some of the neighboring 

 parts of Spain, but whether indigenous there, or introduced from the opposite 



