URSINE AND BLACK COLOBUS. 



These monkeys are fond of society, assembling together in large troops, and howling 

 with exceeding fervor. They observe hours, regulating themselves by the sun, at whose 

 rising and setting they congregate together, and perform their arborial gymnastics. 



For the preternatural ugliness of the countenance, the Kahau is partially com- 

 pensated by the beautiful coloring of its fur, which is thick, but not woolly, nor very 

 long. The principal color in the body is a bright chestnut red ; the sides of the face, 

 part of the shoulders, and the under parts of the body being of a golden yellow. A 

 rich brown tint is spread over the head and between the shoulders ; the arms and legs 

 taking a whiter tinge than the shoulders. 



The nostrils of this creature do not at all resemble those of man, although the 

 animal's nose seems to be a burlesqued edition of the corresponding feature of the 

 human countenance. They are placed quite at the extremity of the nose, and are sep- 

 arated from each other by a very thin cartilage. They are therefore, as has been ob- 

 served in a former page, quite devoid of that expressive character which is so strongly 

 exhibited in the contour of the human nostril. 



We will pass on to more pleasing animals ; but before taking leave of this group of 

 monkeys we must observe that they are hardly deserving of the title " Slow Monkeys," 

 which has been applied to them. They sit quietly on the branches, with their tails 

 hanging down, and their bodies gathered together ; but they only need some exciting 

 cause to make them throw off their seeming apathy. They then spring from branch to 

 branch, flinging themselves towards their mark with wonderful precision, and are all 

 life and energy. 



URSINE COLOBUS. -Colobus Ursiaus. 



BLACK COLOBUS. Colobus Satanas. 



. THE COLOBUS. 



THE scientific name which is given to this genus of monkeys, explains as is the 

 proper office of names one of the leading peculiarities of the animals. The title 

 " Colobus " is a Greek word, signifying " stunted," or " maimed," and is given to these 

 animals because the thumbs of the two fore-limbs give but little external indication of 

 their presence, so that the hand consists merely of four fingers. They are exclusively 

 African animals. They are rather handsome creatures, and their hair is sufficiently 

 long and silky to be valuable as a fur. 



