THE BABBABY APE. 191 



THE BARBARY APE. 

 Inuus sylvanus. CUVIER. 

 PLATE XV. 



Simia inuus, Linnaeus. Magot, Buffon; Frederic Cuvier, 

 Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes. Macaque magot, Des- 

 maresfs Mammalogie, p. 67 Barbaiy ape, Pennant's 

 Quadrupeds ; Gardens of Zoological Society Magot Afri- 

 cam, Inuus ecudatus, Geoffroy, Annales du Museum, xix. 

 p. 100. 



THIS monkey is remarkable, both on account of its 

 peculiar form, and as being the only quadrumanous 

 animal found on the European continent. By Fre- 

 deric Cuvier it is thought to be limited in its geo- 

 graphical distribution to Barbary and Egypt, and 

 the southern districts of Spain, and not to extend 

 over Africa to China and India, as some naturalists 

 allege. But the most celebrated abode of this species 

 is the precipitous sides of the rock of Gibraltar, which 

 is said by a historian of its celebrated siege to be re- 

 markable for the number of apes about its summits 

 breeding in inaccessible places, and appearing in large 

 droves with their young on their backs, on the west- 

 ern face of the hill. 



