QUADRUMANA. ' 5S 



Some of the Macaques are distinguished by a short tail. 



M. rhesus; Rhesus, Audeb. fam. ii; Patas a queue courte, ib. 

 pi. 4, and Buff. Supp. XIV. pi. 16; the first baboon figured by Buff. 

 XIV. pi. 19*. (The Pig-tailed Baboon). Greyish; a fawn-co- 

 loured tinge on the head and crupper, sometimes on the back ; face 

 flesh-colour; tail reaching below the hamstrings. From Bengalf . 



Sim. menestrinus, L. ; Sim. platypigos, Schreb. ; Audeb. fam. ii, 

 sect. 1, pi. 2.; Fr. Cuv. Mammif. under the name of Singe a queue 

 de eochon. (The Brown Baboon). Deep brown above ; black band 

 beginning on the head, and fading as it extends along the back ; yel- 

 lowish round the head and limbs; tail thin and wrinkled ;{:. 



Inuus, Cuv. 

 Mere Macaques, which have a small tubercle in lieu of a tail. 



aS". silvanus, pithecus and inuus, Lin. ; Buff. XIV. 7, 8 ; Fr. Cuv. 

 Mammif. (The Barbary Ape). Completely covered with a light 

 grey-brown hair, and of all monkeys, is the one that suffers least 

 from our climate. He is originally from Barbary, but is said to 

 have become naturalised in the most inaccessible parts of the rock of 

 Gibraltar §. 



Cynocephalus, C. II 

 The Dog-headed Monkeys, together with the teetli, cheek-pouches and 

 callosities of the Inuus, Cuv., have an elongated muzzle truncated at the 

 end, in which the nostrils are pierced, giving it a greater resemblance to 

 that of a dog than of any other monkey ; their tail varies in length. 

 They are generally large, ferocious and dangerous animals, found mostly 

 in Africa. 



* The two specimens used by Audebert are still in the Museum. I have exa- 

 mined them and find they are both of one species. 



f The Macaque a queue courte of Buff. Supp. VII. pi. 13, (Sim. erylrhaa, Schr.) 

 appears to me to be a true Macaque {S. cynomolgus), whose tail had been amputated. 



X Add the Macaque de VInde, and the Macaque a face rouge, Fr. Cuv. Mammif. 



§ The Pilheque of Buff. Supp. VII. pi. 4 and 5, was a young Magot(a). His Lit- 

 tle Cynocephalus, ib. pi. 6, and the Great and Little Cynocephala of Prosper Alpin 

 are also of that species. n<9>)xof is the Greek term for monkeys in general, and the 

 one whose anatomy has been given by Galen was a Magot, although Camper thought it 

 was an Ourang-Outang. M. de Blainville perceived this mistake, and I have proved 

 it by comparing with these two species all that Galen has stated respecting the ana- 

 tomy of his pithecus. 



II Cynocephalus, dog's head, a name well known to the ancients, especially as the 

 dog played a conspicuous part in the symbols of the Egyptians, in which it repre- 

 sented Tot or Mercury. 



^ (a) The Pigmy, or Barbary ape, of which species a male and female are in the 

 Surrey Zoological Gardens, is distinguished in India as an object of superstitious re- 

 verence, to which temples have been raised. In the confined state these animals will- 

 ingly received every sort of food, with the exception of that of animal; they scarcely 

 ever eat any portion, before they broke the whole. The male was capricious, and 

 sometimes ill tempered, and we have seen the female aljvays acting in such a man- 

 ner that shewed fear as well as gentle submission; she usually approached the male 

 by proceeding around him in a circular walk, and with her eyes constantly upon him, 

 as if to watch the favourable moment for shortening the distance between them. The 

 jealousy shewn by him when a visitor took notice of the female, was instantly mani- 

 fested by repeated blows. — Enc;. En. 



