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food of some of the tree monkeys. Indeed, without 

 having 1 recourse to some such food as this, it is not 

 easy to suppose how the countless multitudes of them 

 which swarm in the tropical forests could by possi- 

 bility exist. 



There are many other species of monke}'s included 

 in the genus Cercopithccus, as established by the sys- 

 tematists ; but some of them are doubtful, because 

 we do not know the changes of colour, or even of 

 shape, that these animals may undergo at different 

 ages. It is ascertained, in the ca?e of some which 

 have longer muzzles than those of this genus in the 

 adult state, that they have them comparatively shorter 

 when young ; and it is possible that these young ones 

 may have been erected into species, as has often been 

 done with tiie young of other animals. We shall, 

 therefore, only mention the names of the principal 

 ones, with their localities as far as these are known, 

 for their manners differ but little. 



T/te Golden Monkey (C. aurattui) is golden yellow 

 on the upper part, and pale lemon yellow or whitish 

 on the under. It has the hair on the sides of the 

 head and on the breast very long, and each knee is 

 marked by a black spot. It is understood to inhabit 

 the south-east of Asia, both the main land and the 

 islands. 



Mustache Monkey (C. cephui) is an African, of a 

 greenish-brown colour, with the distal half of the tail 

 red, and the nose and lips bright blue. 



The White-nosed Monkey (C. nictitatm) is an inha- 

 bitant of the forests of Guinea, and has the nose and 

 the lower part of the chin white, the former being 

 generally a good deal produced. On the other parts 

 it is blackish mixed with grey, and passing into lighter 

 on the belly. 



J~H ulting Monkey (C, petaurista). This one is also 

 an African, and gets its name from the height which 

 it can leap from the ground, and also the distance 

 from branch to branch. Its colour on the upper part 

 is reddish, passing into white, and the point of the 

 nose is also white. The outsides of the legs have a 

 greenish tinge, and the insides are grey. 



The Grey Monkey (6 T . albodnereus) is a native of 

 the Oriental islands. As its name implies, its general 

 colour is whitish ash ; being grey above, with the 

 outsides of the legs of a darker grey, and whitish 

 below. The tail is brown; and a ridge of hairs on 

 the forehead, and also the naked skin on tiie feet, 

 black. 



Red-breasted Monkey (C. pygerythrccus] is a native 

 of Southern Africa. Greenish-grey on the upper 

 part, whitish on the under, with a black tip to the 

 tail, and red hairs under its insertion. 



The talapoin monkey, the purple-faced monkey, 

 the bonneted monkey, and one or two more, have 

 been described as belonging to this genus or sub- 

 genus ; but they are known only from single speci- 

 mens, and we are not acquainted with the native 

 locality of any of them. 



The monkeys of this genus make the nearest ap- 

 proach to the true apes, being, like them, compara- 

 tively short in the muzzle ; and thus the generic 

 name, which means "tailed apes," is not inaccurately 

 bestowed. Generally speaking, they are animals of 

 more cunning and resource than the other monkeys; 

 and they are rather more handsome in their appear- 

 ance, although in that respect even they have not 

 very much to boast of. They are irritable, mis- 

 chievous, and not to be trusted. 



A second genus, or rather perhaps subgenus, of 

 monkeys have received the name of Semnopillteci, or 

 venerable apes, from the length of their beards and 

 whiskers, the gravity of their appearance, at least in 

 some of the species, the slowness of their motions, 

 and the length and slenderness of their limbs, which 

 make them look as if they had dwindled to 



The lean and slipper'cl pantaloon. 



This character is not, however, just, as applied to 

 the whole, at least as they are usually arranged ; but 

 they differ from the former section in a sufficient 

 number of particulars for warranting their separation, 

 from it. Their leading characters are : a small 

 tubercle on the last molar of the under jaw, which is 

 wanting in the Sercopitheci, from which we may con- 

 clude that the present section are more herbivorous ; 

 their muzzles are rather more elongated, wilh the 

 head round, and the nose very flat ; the ears of 

 moderate length ; the limbs very long, with very 

 short thumbs on the fore paws, placed far back from 

 the fingers, thus rendering the paw by no means an 

 efficient instrument for holding any thing between 

 the thumb and fingers ; the tails are long and thin ; 

 and the checks are furnished with pouches, and the 

 buttocks with callosities. The whole of them are 

 inhabitants of the eastern countries ; and of course it 

 is exceedingly difficult to bring them to Europe in 

 the living state; and thus, though many of them 

 are abundant in their native regions, and some are 

 even objects of religious worship, it is but recently 

 that they have been well understood by European 

 naturalists. 



Entellus Monkey (S. Entclhts), though one of the 

 most common and most celebrated in India, has not 

 been long admitted into the European systems. The 

 Zoological Society of London possessed at least one 

 specimen, as well as some of the other species or 

 varieties of this subgenus ; but they did not survive 

 long enough for enabling much knowledge to be ob- 

 tained of their manners in a state of confinement ; 

 and though little inference could thence have been 

 drawn respecting their conduct in their native east, 

 yet the peculiar form of their fore-paws, and the addi- 

 tional tubercle upon the lower grinder, would lead 

 one to suppose that they may occasionally make their 

 progress back undermost, after the manner of the 

 sloths, and feed, in part at least, upon green vegetable 

 matter. The specimen which died at the Zoological 

 Gardens, in the early part of the summer of 1833, 

 was described by Mr. Bennet, and dissected by Mr. 

 Owen ; and, as those are excellent authorities, we 

 shall quote the description, and briefly allude to the 

 dissection. " When taken at an early age," says 

 Mr. Bennet, " they are readily tamed, become playful 

 and familiar, are extremely agile, although generally 

 calm and circumspect in their motions, and learn to 

 perform a variety of tricks, which they execute with 

 no little cunning and address. After a time, how- 

 ever, their playfulness wears off; their confidence is 

 succeeded by mistrust ; their agility settles down 

 into a listless apathy ; and, instead of resorting as 

 before to resources of their ingenuity for carrying 

 any particular point, they have recourse to the brute 

 force which they have acquired in its stead. At length 

 they become as mischievous, and sometimes even as 

 dangerous, as any of those monkeys which in their 

 young state offer no such indications of good temper 

 and intelligence. It is of a uniform ash-grey on the 

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