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THE APES AXD MONKEYS. 



with her always found the little Monkey ready to 

 defend her in case of need, sitting on her shoulder 

 or in her lap. Once her mistress was very sick, and 

 the animal became sad and melancholy and would 

 sit for hours at the door of the sick-room, demand- 

 ing admission. After several weeks she was let in, 

 when she immediately jumped on the bed, put her 

 arms around my wife's neck, uttering a plaintive little 

 sound, and could not be taken away again. 

 Muidos Vocal " This little Monkey had a very wide 

 Accomplish- range of vocal sounds. We distin- 

 ments. guished thirteen different sounds, or 

 groups of sounds, that she could utter, ranging from 

 a low, musical chirping or purring, expressive of 



BONNET MONKEY. Found in the hot regions of Asia and Africa, and is quite common in captivity, its 



amusing tricks making it very popular in museums and zoological gardens. It has very large cheek-pouches and 

 stows away in them the greatest possible number of nuts. It is fond of hugging and nursing other animals and of 

 searching their bodies for vermin. Its color is an olive-gray and the hair of the head is parted in the middle. (Maca- 

 cus sinicus.) 



contentment or of a request for some favor, to the 

 yelling and shrieking of anger ; from a softly uttered 

 'took took,' when she was alone in a dark room, 

 and slightly nervous, to a loud 'teck' that came 

 with a violent fright. There were all kinds of cry- 

 ing, gurgling, screaming, grunting, each expressing 

 different stages and kinds of excitement. The most 

 wonderful of all was what we used to call her ' greet- 

 ing to the sun.' When the sun shone bright in the 

 morning, she would look up a specially luminous 

 spot on the table or on the floor, make strange 

 gestures, lift her arms with a slightly swinging mo- 

 tion, and then, addressing the sun, would give us in 

 a loud, deep tone something like the greater half of 

 a chromatic scale, always ending with a deep, long- 



drawn ' o.' They were the strangest of sounds, and 

 I never heard the like from any other Monkey." 



Other well-known members of the Guenon group 

 are the Mona, Talapoin and Red-bellied Monkeys, 

 all of which are distinguished for the beauty of their 

 fur and their striking appearance. 



MACAQUES. 



A great variety of Monkeys are comprised in the 

 genus Macaque {Macacus) in Western Africa, but 

 scientifically speaking there are only a few kinds 

 having a right to this name, and they, with one ex- 

 ception, inhabit southeastern Asia. In general the 

 Macaques have the following distinguishing traits : 



they are of sturdy build ; 

 • V : . -/'■■ the limbs are of moderate 

 length; the snout pro- 

 _L - jects about as much as 



that of the Guenons; and 

 the tail may be as long 

 as the body, or quite 

 stunted. The cheek- 

 pouches and callosities 

 are well developed. A 

 further peculiarity of 

 these animals is, that the 

 hair on the head of some 

 shows a decided parting, 

 while in others it assumes 

 the shape of a huge wig, 

 and the beard, lacking in 

 some, is of unrivalled 

 growth in others. 



In former ages they 

 ranged over a great part 

 of Europe, and even now 

 they go farther north 

 than other Monkeys. The 

 short-tailed species in- 

 habit the north of Africa, 

 China and Japan ; the 

 long-tailed breeds are na- 

 tives of the East Indies. 

 They resemble both the 

 Guenons and the Bab- 

 oons, and live sometimes 

 in forests like the former, 

 sometimes on rocks like 

 the latter. As to charac- 

 ter, they seem to possess 

 the impudence of both ; 

 in youth they are playful 

 and good-natured like 

 the Guenons ; in old age 

 they are crabbed and 

 cross like the Baboons. 

 The Common The best known of this group is the 

 Macaque of Common Macaque or Monjet {Maca- 

 Java. cus cyjiomolgus) , a native of Java. He 

 attains a length of three and a half feet, the tail 

 being about twenty inches long. The hair on the 

 head of the male is pressed down flat, while that of 

 the female forms a crest. Their color is brownish- 

 green in the upper part, grayish-white in the lower ; 

 the hands, feet and tail are black. This animal is a 

 native of Eastern Asia, especially of the great Sunda 

 Islands. Nearly every ship that reaches Europe 

 from the East Indies has a number of these Monk- 

 eys on board, as they can be purchased very reason- 

 ably from the natives, and many of them find their 

 way to America. The Monkey cages in zoological 



