VERTEBRATA. MAMMALIA. 



erect ; nor does he, generally, place the bent 

 knuckles to the ground. He will often stand on 

 the top of his cage, and apply the palms of his 

 hands to the smooth surface of the wall against 

 which it stands. It is said that a spectator who saw 

 him thus employed, with his back to the company, 

 dressed in his little banyan jacket and woollen cap, 

 was told by a companion to look at the monkey, as 

 he profanely called him. ' Where is he ?' was the re- 

 ply. ' Why, there, on the top of the cage/ was the 

 answer. * What ! ' said the first, * that little man 

 who is plastering the wall ?' 



" Tommy does not like confinement ; and, when 

 he is shut into his cage, the violence with which he 

 pulls at and shakes the door is very great, and shows 

 considerable strength; but I have never seen him 

 use this exertion against any other part of the cage, 

 though his keeper has endeavoured to induce him to 

 do so, in order to see whether he would make the dis- 

 tinction. When at liberty, he is extremely playful; 

 and in his high jinks I saw him toddle into a corner 

 where an unlucky bitch was lying with a litter of 

 very young pups, and lay hold of one of them, till 

 the snarling of the mother, and the voice of his 

 keeper, to which he pays instant respect, made him 

 put the pup down. He then climbed up to the top 

 of the cage, where the Marmozets were, and jumped 

 furiously upon it, evidently to astonish the inmates ; 

 who were astonished accordingly, and huddled toge- 

 ther, looking up in consternation at this l dreadful 



