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MONKEYS. 



THE discriminating characteristic of this last division of 

 the ape kind, is the length of the tail; an appendage 

 which in the former two divisions is either very short, or 

 entirely wanting. A great many species of monkeys 

 have been discovered and described by naturalists ; in- 

 deed, the tropical countries swarm with them, and every 

 forest is inhabited by a different kind. Being generally 

 of a diminutive size, they rather amuse by their tricks 

 than alarm by their numbers or their power. They are 

 easily restrained by correction ; and, when brought into a 

 state of captivity, soon begin to exercise their sportive 

 tricks of mimicry. In their native haunts, however, where 

 men seldom intrude, whenever they find an unprotected 

 individual, they immediately commence their petty hosti- 

 lities, chatter round him, and throw withered branches of 

 trees, and even their own filth at his head. The hunting 

 of them affords no little diversion to sportsmen, who de- 

 stroy numbers of them, not for any purpose of utility, but 

 from wanton cruelty : a barbarous pastime, which can only 

 furnish pleasure to vacant and uncultivated minds, and is 

 wholly indefensible. A very few species alone can be here 

 particularised. 



HARE-LIPPED MONKEY. 



The nostrils of this animal, which is about the size of 

 a small greyhound, are divided like those of the hare ; the 

 head is large, the eyes are small, and the body is of a 

 dumsy form ; the colour varies from brown to olive ; the 

 tail, which is rather shorter than the body, is always car- 

 ried archways. This species inhabits Guinea and Angola, 

 and is full of frolic and ridiculous grimaces. 



GREEN MONKEY. 



Buffon calls this species the callitriche, and Edwards 

 the St. Jago monkey. It has a black nose, and a red 

 flattish face, bounded by long yellow hair falling back- 

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