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animal, which is often pulled back by the tail, chastised with a cuff 

 on the head, and then gravely huddled up to the breast, where the 

 shrieks and chattering of the delinquent, which is just as fractious 

 as a child under such circumstances, are soon appeased." 



Like the rest of the genus, this monkey is easily tamed if taken 

 young ; it is intelligent and full of antics. The females continue 

 gentle, but the males become morose and savage as they grow 

 old. 



This species is the Macaque of Buffon, but is not the Simia 

 cynomolgos of Linnaeus, which is an African baboon. F. Cuvier 

 called attention to these facts in 1818, but his remarks appear to 

 have been generally overlooked. As in the case of M. silenus, the 

 name has been used too long to be altered now with a probability 

 of a less familiar term being generally accepted. 



10. Macacus sinicus. The Bonnet Monkey. 



Simla sinica, Linn. Mantissa, p. 521 (1771). 

 Cercocebus radiatus, Geoffr. Ann. du Mus. xix, p. 98 (1812). 

 Macacus radiatus, Blyth, Cat. p. 8 ; Jcrdon, Mam. p. 12. 

 Macacus sinicus, Anderson, An. Zool. Res. p. 90 ; id. Cat. p. 59. 



Bandar, H. ; Makadu, Wdnar, Kerda, Mahr. ; Manga, Kodaga, Can. ; 

 Koti, Tel. ; Koranga, Velio, manthi, Mai. ; Kurangu, Tamul ; Mucha, 

 Kurg ; Kodan, Toda. 



Fur of moderate length, generally straight and smooth. Hair 

 of the crown lengthened and radiating from the vertex, but not 

 usually extending over the forehead, where the shorter hair is 

 parted, as a rule, down the middle. Tail nearly or quite as long 

 as the head and body. Caudal vertebrae 22. 



The skull is long, flattened over the brows, with the orbits much 

 broader than high and nearly vertical. Compared with the skull 

 of M. rhesus, that of M. sinicus is vertically much lower ; thus the 

 skull of which the measurements are given below is 3-05 inches in 

 height, the mandible included, whilst a skull of M. rhesus one tenth 

 of an inch shorter is, with its mandible, 3*5 inches high. 



Colour. Hair-brown to greyish brown above, pale brown or 

 whitish below. Fur annulated towards the ends in some specimens. 

 Face and ears flesh-coloured. 



Dimensions. Head and body of an adult male 19| inches, tail 22 ; 

 weight 16 Ibs. The tail, however, is generally rather longer in 

 proportion. An adult male skull is 4-8 inches long from occiput, 

 3-5 from foramen, and 3-5 broad across the zygomatic arches. 



Distribution. Southern India, extending on the West Coast to the 

 neighbourhood of Bombay, but on the East not further than the 

 Grodavari ; it is doubtful indeed if this species is found so far north 

 as that river. 



This monkey is replaced in Ceylon by the next, which appears 

 only to differ in colour. In general M. sinicus has shorter and 

 smoother fur, and the radiating hair on the crown is shorter, not 



