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The fierce and malignant Lion-tailed B. ]N° io6, is met with 

 in fome parts of this peninfula. 

 MoNKiEs. Of true monkies, the elegant fpecies the Green, ]S!° 113 ; the 



Talapoin, N° 117 ; a black variety of the white eye-lid monkey, 

 N' 114: the thumb of that in Lady Impey^s coUedion had no 

 flat nail, the reft of the toes clawed ; the Monea, N* 120, and 

 the Tawny, N" 126, a malevolent fpecies, are all found in 

 India. 



There are certainly other fpecies of large fize, and very 

 dangerous when infulted. I'avernier was once in great danger 

 of being killed by a troop of them he met with in fome woods 

 near Amedabad. He was in company with the prefident of 

 Suraty who prevaled on him to try a new fowling piece on one 

 of the tribe. He accordingly fhot a female, who fell dead on 

 the boughs. The whole troop, to the number of fixty, de- 

 fcended inftantly, and made an attempt to go into the preli- 

 dent's coach. They would have afluredly deftroyed him, had 

 they not been by the numbers of his fervants beaten away ; yet 

 they perfifted following the carriage above a league. 



I'avernier gives an account of a ridiculous fpecies of conteft, 

 which he had feen a few leagues from Madras, in the public 

 roads, cut through the forefts of Bamboos, &c. in which the 

 apes or monkies breed in great numbers. " In feveral parts of 

 " this road," fays the traveller, " there is rice to be fold, and 

 " they that would fee the fport, caufe five or fix bafkets of rice 

 " to be fet up in the road, fome forty or fifty paces one from 

 " the other; and clofe by every bafket they lay five or fix 



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