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native of Guinea and Western Africa, and is chiefly remarkable for the vivid 

 colors with which it is adorned. Its cheeks are of a brilliant blue, its muzzle 

 of a bright scarlet, and a stripe of crimson runs along the center of its nose. 

 These colors are agreeably contrasted by the purple hues of the hinder 

 quarters. It lives principally in forests filled with brushwood, from which 



\ WHITE-HANDED GIBBON. 



it makes incursions into the nearest villages, plundering them with impu- 

 nity. On this account it is much dreaded by the natives, who feel them- 

 selves incapable of resisting its attacks. It is excessively ferocious, and 

 easily excited to anger; and when enraged, so boundless is its rage, that I 

 have seen several of these animals expire from the violence of their fury. 



