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common bandar, Macacus rhesus, does not seem to 

 occur, troops of langurs, Semnopithecus entellus, every 

 now and then wander in from the neighbouring 

 country. They pay regular visits to the Botanic 

 Garden at the times at which certain kinds of trees 

 mature their fruit, but, owing to their relatively quiet 

 habits and the thickly- wooded character of the place, 

 their presence often escapes notice. They are 

 strangely still as compared with common bandars, 

 who go on perpetually yelping and talking to one 

 another, and it is quite astonishing to observe the 

 quietness with which a troop of such large animals 

 can travel about over the tree-tops, so long as they 

 are not alarmed, or on a journey from one of their 

 haunts to another. A band of langurs was in the 

 Botanic Garden when a tiger escaped from the 

 menagerie of the late King of Oudh in Garden 

 Reach, and swam across the river. Until he invaded 

 the garden the monkeys had moved about so quietly 

 that no one was aware of their presence, but no 

 sooner had he landed than they revealed themselves 

 by following him about and scolding loudly from 

 the trees overhanging the places at which he halted 

 and the tracks that he followed in moving from one 

 covert to another. 



Where they occur in small numbers and only 

 occasionally make their appearance, any damage that 

 langurs may do is made good by the pleasure 

 afforded by their exhibitions of agility in climbing 



