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the snow without catching cold. Their tempers are quite as 

 warm as their blood. 



From Japan, monkey-land extends southward through 

 China and southern Asia generally, over the Malay islands 



DIANA MONKEY. 



almost to Australia, and throughout the whole of Africa ex- 

 cept its great deserts, to the extreme south. 



Of all these Old World species, none have prehensile (grasp- 

 ing) tails, like many American species. Many of them are 

 beautifully colored, however, and the markings of some are 

 quite fantastic. The DIANA MONKEY, of West Africa, is 

 elaborately marked with black, white, gray, and brown, and 

 it is one of the most beautiful of all monkeys. An Old World 

 monkey can nearly always be recognized by the very narrow 

 space between the nostrils. 



