CLASS I. MAMMALIA: ORDER 2. QUADRUMANA. 



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the true colobe : colobus verus. — (See p. 82.) 



These creatures live in large companies in the forests, along the hanks of rivers, ■where it is 

 their custom to make an excursion, morning and evening, bounding, chasing, frolicking, and giving 

 themselves up to the most tumultuous sport. Their constant noisy outcry of Kahau, kahau, fre- 

 quently attracts the hunter, and results in their destruction. Their disposition is savage and mis- 

 chievous. 



The Dyacks declare that this monkev is a human being that lives retired in the woods in order 

 to avoid taxation. M. Geoffroy tells us that a short time before the French revolution of 1789, 

 Tippoo Sahib's ambassadors at Paris were o-reatlv delighted at seeing one of these creatures in the 

 Garden of Plants, whom they recognized as a countryman, and to whom they imputed a high 

 moral and mental intelligence. Napoleon insisted that a big nose was evidence of talent in a man, 

 and Tippoo's diplomats evidently thought the rule applicable to monkeys. 



The Douc, S. nemceus, is a native of Cochin China, and is noted alike for its vivacity and the 

 striking contrasts in the color of its fur, the upper part of its body being gray, speckled with black ; 

 the thighs and fingers, black ; the legs and tarsus of a bright russet ; the fore-arms, thumb, lower 

 part of the legs, haunches, and tail of a pure white. These animals live in large troops, and are 

 of inoffensive habits, if not molested. 



The preceding are the best known and most interesting species of Semnopithecs. Many 

 others, however, are described by naturalists, among which are the White-rumped Monkey of 

 ( Ceylon, S. leucojjnjmnus ; Dussumier's Monkey, of Malabar, S. Dussumieri ; the Hooded Mon- 

 key, also of Malabar, S. cucullatus : the S. obscurus, of Malacca ; the Whi^e-footed Monkey of 

 Manilla, S. albipes ; the Snowy Monkey, S. pruinosus ; the Negro, or Tchincou Monkey, of 

 Java, S. Maurus ? the Crested Monkey of Sumatra and Borneo, S. cristatus ; the Femoral 

 ; Monkey of Borneo, S. femoralis ; the Golden Monkey of Java and the Moluccas, S. auratus; 

 the Crowned Monkey, S. frontatus, the S. rubicundus of Schlegel, and the Gold-haired 



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