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whence they tumbled down upon me; for in other 

 respects they were so silent and nimble in their tricks, 

 that it would have been difficult to hear them. Here 

 I stopped, and killed two or three of them, before the 

 others seemed to be much frighted ; however, when 

 they found themselves wounded, they began to look 

 for shelter, some by hiding themselves among the large 

 boughs, others by coming down upon the ground ; 

 others, in fine, and these were the greatest number, 

 by jumping from one tree to another. Nothing could 

 be more entertaining, when several of them jumped 

 together on the same bough, than to see it bend under 

 them, and the hithermost to drop down to the ground, 

 while the rest got further on, and others were still 

 suspended in the air. As this game was going on, I 

 continued still to shoot at them ; and though I killed 

 no less than three-and-twenty in less than an hour, 

 and within the space of twenty fathoms, yet not one 

 of them screeched the whole time, notwithstanding 

 that they united in companies, knit their brows 

 gnashed their teeth, and seemed as if they intended 

 to attack me." 



Another species belonging to this group is Fre- 

 deric Cuvier's Malbrouk, Cercocebus cynosurus, de- 

 scribed and figured by that naturalist as an animal 

 of truly arboreal habits ; walking with difficulty on 

 the ground, and exhibiting the greatest activity when 

 sporting on the bars of its cage ; it could sustain itself 



