i8 TYPES OF ANIMAL LIFE 



sewed on, and the proprietor of the shop admitted that 

 he had had this done to restore the specimens to 

 what he supposed must have been their natural con- 

 dition ! 



It is often assumed that wild animals escape most of 

 the evils to which civilised human flesh is heir. No 

 doubt in most cases when such creatures are suiFerers 

 from disease, merciful Nature calls in her destructive 

 powers to make a speedy end of their sufferings. Never- 

 theless, skeletons in our museums show that these apes, 

 in their hot, damp native forests, do occasionally suffer 

 severely from acute rheumatism. 



The two sets of long-tailed apes just noticed, form 

 together one very natural and distinct section or sub- 

 family of the ape order. With the exception of the 

 lofty region of Thibet, they are confined to the warmer 

 parts of Africa and Asia, although in Miocene times they 

 ranged through Europe from Greece to Montpellier, if 

 not farther north. 



The next sub-family of monkeys to be here noticed is 

 one which is no less distinct, though the forms it contains 

 are more varied. In it we find, as it were, a sliding 

 scale of forms descending from graceful little African 

 monkeys, such as the Diana monkey, the Mona or the 

 white-nosed monkey, to the largest and most brutal of 

 the baboons. The whole sub-family is imperfectly 

 divisible into three groups. The first of these is made 

 up of species exclusively African, such as the three kinds 

 above mentioned, and their allies. The Diana monkey 

 is so called from its white concentric band of hair above 

 the forehead. The Mona is remarkable for its brilliant 

 coloration, its head being yellowish olive with a black 

 stripe on the forehead, yellow whiskers, and a purple 

 face. The back is chestnut brown, and there is a white 



