CLASS I. MAMMALIA: ORDER 2. QUADRUMANA 



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THE WHITE-NOSED MONKEY. 



The White-nosed Monkey, C. nicfitans, is sometimes called the ffocheur, and was denominated 

 the Long-nosed Guenon by Buffon. The nose is not only white, but is more prominent than in 

 most monkeys. Its general color is black, spotted with olive. It is a native of Guinea. 



The Lesser White-nosed Monkey, C petaurista, has a very flat nose, but still marked with a 

 distinct spot of white at the extremity. The general color is brown, mixed with gray, deeper on 

 the back and tail and the outer sides of the limbs ; the hands are nearly black. It is a very small 

 species, the body being only ten or twelve inches long, and the tail half as much again. It is a 

 native of Guinea, and peculiarly sensitive to cold. A specimen in the London Zoological Gardens 

 was lively and good-tempered, very shy and anxious to conceal its form, and kicking and crying 

 out if handled for inspection. 



The Grivet, C. privet, is from the upper regions of the Nile, and was known to the ancient 

 Egyptians as well as the Greeks. Its size is small, and its color a greenish gray. It is supposed 

 by some authors to be the animal spoken of in the Bible, 2 Chronicles, ix. 21 : "For the king's — 

 Solomon's — ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram : every three years once came tin 

 ships of Tarshish bringing gold and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 1 ' Others suppose the 

 ape referred to was the magot. There is little doubt that the grivet is one of the monkeys repre- 

 sented on the Egyptian monuments. 



The Green Monkey, or Callitrix, C. sabceus, a well-known African species, is of a greenish- 

 yellow color, the body about sixteen inches long. Adanson, in his travels in Senegal, gives an 

 account of these animals in their native state, as follows : 



" I perceived the monkeys only by the branches which they broke from the tops of the trees to 

 throw down upon me ; for they were so light and silent in their movements, that it was difficult 

 to hear them. I first shot one and then another, without their seeming at all alarmed. How- 

 ever, when most of them were killed or wounded, the rest began to shelter themselves : some of 

 them by hiding behind the large branches ; others by descending to the earth ; others still, and 

 by far the greater number, jumped from one tree to another. I continued to fire upon them, and 

 killed twenty-three in less than half an hour, and within a short space. During this time they 



