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of bis body. He expects this band to be taken kindly, and he 

 then assumes his natural attitude. In that manner of advanc- 

 ing it is obviously impossible that he could bite, as his mouth 

 is towards his own chest, so it is the best way of showing how 

 far he is from thinking of hostility. 

 February 28, 1881. 



The above account may be taken as fully trustworthy. 

 Most of the observations recorded I have myself subse- 

 quently verified numberless times. From the account, 

 however, several observations which I happened to make 

 myself in the first instance are designedly omitted, and 

 these I shall therefore now supply. 



I bought at a toy- shop a very good imitation of a 

 monkey, and brought it into the room with the real 

 monkey, stroking and speaking to it as if it were alive. 

 The monkey evidently mistook the figure for a real 

 animal, manifesting intense curiosity, mixed with much 

 alarm if I made the figure approach him. Even when I 

 placed the figure upon a table, and left it standing motion- 

 less, the monkey was afraid to approach it. From this it 

 would appear that the animal trusted much more to his 

 sense of sight than to that of smell in recognising one of 

 his own kind. 



I placed a mirror upon the floor, and the monkey at 

 once mistook his reflection in it for a real animal. At 

 first he was a little afraid of it ; but in a short time he 

 gained courage enough to approach and try to touch it. 

 Finding he could not do so, he went round behind the 

 mirror and then again before it a great number of times ; 

 but he did not become angry, as the monkey of which 

 Prof. Brown Eobertson wrote me. Strange to say, he 

 appeared to mistake the sex of the image, and began in 

 the most indescribably ludicrous manner to pay to it the 

 addresses of courtship. First placing his lips against the 

 glass he rose to his full height on his hind legs, retired 

 slowly, and while doing so turned his back to the mirror, 

 looking over his shoulder at the image, and, with a pre- 

 posterous amount of ' pinch ' in his back, strutted up and 

 down before the glass with all the appearance of the most 

 laughable foppery. This display was always gone through 



