440 Q UADR UMANA. 



account of the great length of their limbs and their very long tail. They have 

 callosities on the rump, but are destitute of cheek-pouches. They are, more- 

 over, furnished with a laryngeal sac, whereby, perhaps, their vocal powers are 

 increased. 



Of this race of monkeys the most striking in its appearance is the Kahau 

 (Semnopithecus nasica, Fig. 485), distinguished by the possession of a nose of 

 very unenviable dimensions. These monkeys live in Borneo, where they con- 

 gregate in considerable numbers every morning and evening on the branches 

 of trees near the river-banks, and make the woods resound with their loud cry 

 Kahau ) kahau. They are likewise said to inhabit Cochin China. 



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FIG. 485. KAHAU. 



The G-uenons or Long-tailed Monkeys (Cercopithecus}* possess both 

 callosities and cheek-pouches. The species are very numerous, and very 

 various in their size and colour. They are distributed all over the African 

 continent, live in large troops, and commit serious depredations in cultivated 

 places. Many of them are easily tamed ; they are of lively disposition, and 

 in leaping from tree to tree display wonderful activity. 



The Magots (luuus) have the tail reduced to a mere rudiment. The com- 

 mon species, limits sylvanus, covered entirely with a brownish-grey hair, 

 although a native of Barbary, is met with on the southern coast of Spain, and 

 has taken complete possession of the most inaccessible part of the rock of 

 Gibraltar. It is the only animal of the Order Ouadrumana that inhabits 

 Europe. It is easily taught when young to perform various tricks, and is fre- 

 quently exhibited in our streets. 



* fclpjcos, cercos, a tail ; irldeKOS, pithecos, a monkey. 



