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a state of nature. Frederic Cuvier speaks very highly of its 

 docility, gentleness, and intelligence in a state of confinement j 

 but Mr. Ogilby says, that though the females and young males 

 are at all times gentle and playful, he has seen adult males 

 exhibit considerable caprice, and become as intolerant of fami- 

 liarity as an aged green monkey. 



THE LION-TAILED MONKEY, OR WANDEROO. (Papio Silenus.) 



This species, which is very often brought to England, is said 

 to inhabit both the coast of Malabar and in the island of Ceylon. 



Its hair is of a jet black colour throughout, except that which 

 forms its long dense mane, which is of a white or greyish 

 colour, and descends on each side of the face and extends over 

 the chest, bearing resemblance to a judge's wig, and giving 

 my lord chief justice Wanderoo a vast appearance of wisdom 

 and importance, which, together with his habitual gravity, is 

 often indescribably ludicrous. He has large cheek pouches, 

 and flesh-coloured callosities of large size ; a muzzle perfectly 

 black ; a tail about as long as the body, and terminating in a 

 tuft of hairs. 



Robert Knox, in his History of Ceylon (1681), says, that the 

 wanderoos " do but little mischief, keeping in the woods, eating 

 only leaves and buds of trees j but when they are caught they 

 will eat anything." Mr. E. T. Bennett, writing in 1830, says 

 that a specimen " which had remained for some months in the 

 Zoological Society's Museum, then in Bruton- street, was ex- 

 tremely active, and occasionally very troublesome, but, at the 



