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coveries in central Asia. There, high up in the cukl 

 forests of Moupin, in Thibet, he found an ape clothed 

 with dense fur, suitable for its frigid abode. It lives in 

 a region where frost and snow last several months in 

 the year, and where it has little to eat but the shoots 

 and twigs of trees. Nevertheless, this ape, living in a 

 region so remote from Borneo, with its hot, humid 

 forests, is very like the young form of the proboscis 

 monkey. It differs from the latter, however, in having 

 a nose turned up to the highest possible degree, on which 

 account its describer. Prof. Alphonse ]\Iilne Edwards, 

 named it '• the monkey of Roxallana," in honour of that 

 " tip-tilted " imperial beauty. 



The Indian monkeys, which in general structure are 

 most like the kahau and the entellus, are closely re- 

 sembled by the species of an African group, the members 

 of which are called colobi. These African apes have had 

 a too fatal popularity, the glossy coats of their well- 

 clothed skins having been for a time the favourite 

 material for ladies' mufis, the well-known '• monkey 

 muffs." Several species of colobi are very notable for 

 their wonderfully handsome fur fringes or tippets of long 

 white hair, accomjDanying a general livery of the deepest 

 black. Their Indian allies have very feebly developed 

 thumbs, but the colobi are remarkable for having no 

 thumbs at all. A specimen presenting this condition of 

 hand may well seem to a non-scientific observer as one 

 accidentally or purposely mutilated. We recollect a few 

 years ago having our attention arrested by two very fine 

 specimens of this genus which we saw mounted in a 

 tobacconist's window in London. To our surprise we 

 observed that they had thumbs, and so we at once 

 entered the shop, and asked to be allowed to inspect 

 them. We then found that artificial thumbs had been 



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