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engaging. . . . Every evening it makes with me a tour round the 

 village square, with one of its hands on my arm. It is a very curious and 

 ludicrous sight to see it in the erect attitude on its somewhat bandy legs, 

 hurrying along in the most frantic haste, as if to keep its head from 

 outrunning its feet, with its long free arm see-sawing in the most odd way 

 over its head to balance itself, and now and again touching the ground 

 with its finger-tips or its knuckles." * 



Mr. Frohawk, who made an accurate drawing of the animal, 

 contributed the following note to the Field (November 26, 

 1898) to accompany the picture. It is of much interest as 

 showing the desire of these anthropoids for some form of 

 animal food: 



I have sketched it expanding the peculiar loose globular throat, which 

 it blows out while calling. Its voice is wonderfully clear, deep, and 

 mellow, and resembles the baying of a hound. I caught for it one of those 

 small cockroaches which inhabit the apes' house, and it instantly seized it 

 between its thumb and base of forefinger, then climbed up to the top of 

 its cage, using the tips of the fingers of that hand still holding the 

 cockroach, and then ate it. I noticed it tried several times to catch flies 

 as they flew near it by grabbing at them with its hand. 



Dr. George Bennett obtained an example of this gibbon at 

 Singapore in 1830, and intended to bring it to England for the 

 Gardens. Unfortunately, the animal died on the passage, f 



Rtippell's colobus, with jet black fur and long white 

 mantle covering the sides, was entered as new. This monkey 

 ranges over North-East Africa, with a geographical race in the 

 neighbourhood of the Upper Congo. The Masai use the skins 

 for articles of dress and for covering their shields. L'hoest's 

 monkey from Congoland was new to science, and was described 

 by Dr. Sclater in the Proceedings (1898, p. 586) as belonging 

 to his Black-handed section of the guenons, coming nearest 

 to Sykes's monkey, but distinguished therefrom by its dark 

 head and the fluffy white elongated ruff on each side of the 

 throat. 



An example of the Duke of Bedford's deerj was presented 

 by the President, who introduced this species at Woburn, where 

 there is now a large herd. Two examples of the Australian 



* " Handbook of the Primates," ii. 168, 169. 

 t " Wanderings in New South Wales," ii. 142. 

 X Lydekker in Proceedings, 1896, pp. 930-34 ; ibid. 1897, p. 815. 

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