THE BLACK CYNOPITHECUS. 



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the Negro Cynopithecus, who is wholly black, and a little smaller 

 than the Baboon. His head is crowned with a kind of head-dress 

 raised to a point on the forehead ; and his face surrounded with a 

 fringe of long hair. His habitat is the Celebes, and some other islands 

 situated between Borneo and Mindanaos. He possesses a mild and 

 lively disposition. Quoy and Gaymard, naturalists on board the 

 French exploring-ship L' Astrolabe, obtained an individual who was 

 readily tamed, and played in the gayest and best-tempered manner 

 possible with the first person he encountered. 



THE BLACK CYXOPITHECUS'. 



I may here pause to indicate a few of the more remarkable varie- 

 ties of the Baboon and the Monkey : premising that by a recent 

 classification the Apes, or Simise, are divided into four sections viz. : 

 Apes, or such as are tailless ; Baboons, with elongated muzzles and 

 short tails ; Monkeys, generally with long tails ; and Sapajous, or 

 Monkeys with prehensile tails. For the pressnt, I limit my remarks 

 to members of the second and third sections. 



