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BUFFON S MACAKE. 



taking the most vigilant care of it. This tender solicitude of maternity in so coarse a brute is 

 still admirable. 



The Munga, or Chinese Bonnet Monkey, M. sinicus — Simla sinica of Linnaeus — is a native 

 of India, has a long, naked, wrinkled face of a livid flesh-color, with a mass of long hairs, like 

 the rays of a circle, above its head. The general color of the body is a greenish gray. It is 

 found in Southern India, where popular superstition bestows upon it the same privileges as are 

 enjoyed by the entellus monkey in Bengal. The priests believe and teach that some dozen god- 

 monkeys, which figure in their theogony, will inflict the direst vengeance on those who happen, 

 even by chance, to kill one of these brutes. Hence they multiply to an enormous extent, and 

 become a pest to mankind, plundering the gardens of fruit and making sad havoc in the sugar 

 plantations. The inhabitants of the towns and villages are obliged to build trellises to keep them 

 out of their houses. The old authors tell us that these creatures watch the natives who tap the 

 palm-trees in order to get the juice, of which they make a favorite beverage called zari. When the 

 people are gone, the monkeys come and drink the sap which has collected in the vases. This, 

 however, intoxicates them, and thus, having lost their wits, they are easily captured. This story 

 needs confirmation. 



The monkey we have been describing is the Toque of some French authors, which, although it 

 has been considered a distinct species, is identical with the Chinese bonnet monkey, or at most a 

 variety of that species. The two are of the same locality and habits, with only accidental dis- 

 tinctions. 



The Black-faced Monkey, M. carbonarius, found in Sumatra, is held by some naturalists to be 

 the same as the preceding, which it resembles. 



The Maimon, or Pigtailed Macake, M. nernestrinus, is a large and robust animal, of a savage 

 disposition, found in Borneo and Sumatra. 



Besides these species, there are the Macacus aureus of Bengai and Sumatra ; the Tawny Mon- 

 key of Pennant, Simia mulatto, perhaps only a variety of the M. aureus ; M. Philippinensh, 

 which is white, and probably an albino of some of the species we have described ; the Short- 

 tailed Monkey, M. erythraius, found in Continental India ; the Ursine Macake, M. ursinus, of 

 Cochin China ; and the Red-faced Macake, M. speciosus, of Japan. 



