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CERCOCEBUS FULIGINOSUS. 



THE MANGABEY OR WHITE 



EYELID MONKEY. 



PLATE XII. 



From a Specimen in the Royal Zoological Gardens, 

 Edinburgh. 



THIS Monkey is good-natured and playful, yet, in 

 its most humorous fits, displaying a ludicrous gravity 

 of expression, at the same tune uttering a low, 

 pleased, serious grunt. It was exceedingly inquisi- 

 tive, fond of handling and examining every thing 

 within reach, yet carefully keeping itself clear of 

 being touched; never showed any fits of passion 

 or ill-nature; was not greedy or grasping; took 

 what it got from visitors in the way of dainties, 

 never appearing jealous of much smaller or weaker 

 companions in the same cage, who came in for a 

 share of the good things going. It walked mostly 



