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THE MONKEY FAMILY, 



body, it looks as if the beardgrass were becoming alive and assuming animal 

 form to escape into the darkness of the deeper forest. 



Mr. Roosevelt noticed that this tree monkey is not adapted to walking, 



From a recent photograph. 



FIVE BEAUTIES IN THE KILIMANJARO DISTRICT. 



and is seldom seen on the ground. It need not even go to a river to quench 

 its thirst, for it finds plenty of water stored up in the hollows of the trees. 

 The colobus loves the solitude of the woods and is rarely seen near human 

 habitations. Where it is not hunted, it is full of curiosity, and not over- 

 shy. But its fur, unfortunately, is a much-desired article of trade, and there- 

 fore the animal is pursued and its numbers greatly diminished by European 

 and native hunters, who armed with breech-loading rifles have almost ex- 

 terminated it in many of its favorite haunts, so that a few years ago it took 

 an experienced African hunter three days to secure three specimens for a 



