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Depredations. 



they do not, in their alarm, let the whole fall, in 

 order to run off: they drop the stalks which they 

 held in their hands, and under their arms, that 

 they may run on their four feet, which they do 

 with more speed than on two, but still carefully 

 retain what they carried in their mouth. They 

 examine with the most scrupulous accuracy, 

 every stalk they pull, and those they find not per- 

 fectly suited to their purpose, they throw on the 

 ground, and tear up others instead. By this de- 

 licacy of choice they often do much more injury 

 than even by what they take away. 



They inhabit Southern Africa, India, and 

 Java; and are commonly taken in snares con- 

 cealed among the branches of the trees, where 

 they are continually skipping about in the most 

 active and ludicrous gambols. 



THE STRIATED MONKEY. 



THIS little animal is about the size of a squir- 

 rel. The body is of a reddish ash-colour, slightly 

 undulated with dusky shades. The face is a dark- 

 flesh colour, having on each a very large and 

 thick tuft of milk-white hair, standing out before 

 the ears. The paws, which are covered with 

 hair, have sharp nails : and the tail is long and 

 very thickly covered with fur, beautifully marked 

 through its whole length with alternate bars of 

 black and white. 



