MACAQUES. 107 



At least, in captivity, this species is said to be characterised by the unusual 

 habit of keeping its long tail turned forwards over the body. In confinement this 

 inangabt'y is docile and good-tempered, and more amenable to instruction than is 

 the case with the majority of the larger guenons. A specimen, which lived more 

 than fifty years ago in the Zoological Society's Gardens, was said to be a most 

 importunate beggar ; " but instead of snatching the contributions of his visitors 

 with violence or anger, like the generality of monkeys, he solicited them by 

 tumbling, dancing, and a hundred other amusing tricks. He was very fond of 

 being caressed, and would examine, the hands of his friends with great gentleness 

 and gravity, trying to pick out the little hairs, and all the while expressing his 

 satisfaction by smacking his lips, and uttering a low surprised grunt." 



The white-collared mangabey (C. collaris) may be easily distinguished from 

 the sooty mangabey by its blackish-grey colour, the white round the neck, and the 

 bay on the crown of the head ; the white of the collar extending on to the cheeks, 

 throat, and chest. 



The third representative of this group is the white-crowned mangabey, which 

 takes its name from a characteristic white spot on the crown, and is also dis- 

 tinguished by a white streak running down the middle of the back. 



THE GREY-CHEEKED MANGABEY (Cercocebus albigena). 



The circumstance that the hair of the crown of the head is lengthened so as 

 to form a distinct crest affords a ready means of distinguishing the grey-cheeked 

 mangabey from its three congeners. The general colour of this monkey is blackish, 

 but its name comes from the greyish hairs on the sides of the throat and cheeks, 

 It was first made known to science in 1850 by the late Dr. Gray, from specimens 

 sent home from the West Coast of Africa by Du Chaillu, previously to his great 

 expedition of 1855. 



THE MACAQUES. 

 Genus Macacus. 



After having devoted so much space to the monkeys of Africa, we turn 

 to those Asiatic species known as Macaques, of which a group is represented in 

 our coloured Plate. 



We have already seen the curious origin of the term mangabey, applied to 

 the group of African monkeys last mentioned, and it appears from what we have 

 to say immediately that there is a kind of fatality in regard to the misapplication 

 of names among monkeys. So far as can be learnt, the name Macac or Macaque 

 seems to be a barbarous word which, in Margrave's Natural History of Brazil, 

 published in the year 1648, is given as the native name of a monkey from the 

 Congo and Guinea. Buffon, however, with a facility for misappropriation for 

 which he was rather celebrated, transferred this name to the Indian group forming 

 this part of our subject, and to them it has ever afterwards clung, having been 

 Latinised into Macacus. In spite of its origin, the name is good enough, and so 

 must remain. 



