CLASS I. MAMMALIA: ORDER 2. QUADRUMANA 



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the chacma.— (See p. 94.) 



In a state of nature the magot lives on fruits, but when domesticated he eats all kinds of food. 

 He puts nothing into his mouth, however, without having examined it carefully. He generally 

 begins by first filling his huge cheek-pouches. He has great reputation as a maker of faces : it is 

 thought he knows his talent, and cultivates it. "When angry, his jaw chatters, his lips quiver, his 

 motions become fierce and threatening, and his mouth utters hideous cries. 



A few of this species are found among the rocks of Gibraltar, where the soldiers sometimes put 

 tricks upon them by placing calabashes of wine in their way. The monkeys squeeze their heads 

 in, but the calabashes adhere to their necks, and the wine swashes in their faces, blinding and 

 4ifling them, so that they are easily caught. 



This animal was known to the ancients, and is that described and dissected by Galen. It is 

 thought to have been once common in Europe, and the colony at Gibraltar is regarded as a ves- 

 tige of the race probably once spread over the warm parts of that continent. 



Genus CYXOPITHECUS : from the Greek kuon, a dog, and pithekos, a monkey. — Of this 

 »enus there is but one species, the Black Macake, Cynopithecus niger — the Macacus niger of 

 *ome authors. This has no tail, is a little smaller than the magot, and is entirely black. Several 

 specimens have been in the Garden of Plants at Paris and the Zoological Gardens of London, where 

 they seemed familiar and playful. They are natives of Borneo and the adjacent islands. 



Genus BABOON, Cynocephalus : from the Greek kuon, a dog, and kephale, the head. — We 

 now come to some of the most remarkable of the monkey species — the Baboons. They have less 

 :>f the human-like form and aspect than other members of the family, and more that of the mere 

 brute. The most marked and prominent of the characters which more- immediately distinguish 

 be baboons from the other Simiadce consist in the great prolongation of the' face and jaws, and 

 n the truncated form of the muzzle, which gives the whole head a close resemblance to that of a 

 arge dog, and from which the Greeks and Romans very appropriately denominated them Cyno- 

 "ephali, or Dog-headed Monkeys. In the ordinary Quadrumana, which have the head and face 



