3 g ZOOLOGICAL SKETCHES. 



hold of him his outcries never fail to bring Buddha to 

 the rescue. He does not offer to bite me, as long as 

 there is any doubt about my intentions, but in the mean 

 while serves an injunction by grasping my coat-tail and 

 contracting his brows in a menacing way. With other 

 animals this instinct is limited to the protection of their 

 young; though something like a defensive and offen- 

 sive alliance of friends has been observed among the 

 larger phocce, sea-bears and sea-lions, and, strange to 

 say, is not rarely found among geese ; a single goose 

 is an arrant coward, but a pair of them are liable to 

 become belligerent. The protective association of wild 

 hogs is something quite different, a sort of esprit de 

 corps, founded not on individual friendships, but on the 

 strength-in-unity principle, a courage en masse, strictly 

 proportioned to the numerical strength of the confed- 

 eration. 



The language of our little cousins has a sound or a 

 gesture for every emotion. In his fits of loving-kind- 

 ness the black spider-monkey chirps like a bird, and 

 hugs the objects of his affection with such a fervor of 

 kindness that dogs and cats have often to use their teeth 

 to escape suffocation. In a huff he struts up and down 

 with his long tail straight erect like an Hungarian pike- 

 standard. The pretty vevet (Cercopithecus callithrix) has 

 an amusing way of intimating his desire for food by 

 moving his head to and fro with alternate simpers and 

 grins. In a fit of anger he gets his back up like a pan- 



