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group are distinguished by the lively colours of their fur ; that 

 of the Diana Monkey {Cercopithecus diana) among others, which 

 is a native of Congo and Guinea, sells for a considerable price. 



The tribes of the mangabeys, macaques, magots, and cyno- 

 pitheci form the links between the cercopitheci and the baboons. 

 Their shape is less slender than that of the former, their frontal 

 bone is more developed, particularly above the eye-brows, and 

 their face is lenger. They are all of them provided with cheek- 

 pouches. Several of the macaques have a very short tail, and the 

 magots, or Barbary apes, and the cynopithecus of the Philippine 

 Islands, have none, thus resembling the large anthropomorphous 

 apes, but widely differing from them in other respects. 



The Magot is the only European species, and seems exclusively 

 confined in our part of the world to the rock of Gribraltar, 

 though some authors affirm that it is found in other parts of 

 Andalusia, and even in the province of Grenada. It would no 

 doubt long since have been extirpated, if the British Govern- 

 ment had not taken it under its especial protection, and imposed 

 the penalty of a heavy fine upon its wanton destruction. 



The Cynocephali (Baboons and Mandrills) show at once by 

 their Greek name that a dog-like snout gives them a more 

 bestial expression than belongs to the rest of the monkey 

 tribes, and that of all the simise of the Old World they are 

 most widely distant from man. In size they are only sur- 

 passed by the gorilla and the uran, and if in the latter the 

 physiognomy becomes more brutal in its expression with ad- 

 vancing age, this degradation is much greater in the baboons. 



Their canine teeth in particular acquire a greater sharpness 

 than those of almost every other carnivorous animal, so that 

 these malignant and cruel animals, armed with such powerful 

 weapons, may well be reckoned among the most formidable 

 of the wild beasts of Africa. As if to render them complete 

 pictures of depravity, their manners also are so shamelessly 

 filthy, that the curiosity they excite soon changes into horror 

 and disgust. 



The short-tailed mandrills inhabit the west coast of Africa. 

 The Maimon is the most remarkable of the whole genus 

 for brilliancy and variety of colour; its furrowed cheeks are 

 magnificently striped with violet, blue, .purple, and scarlet, 

 so as more to resemble an artificial tattooing than a natural 



