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blackish at their anterior edges ; whence the hair was continued of the 

 same hue downward to the chin, beneath which it formed two short, 

 slender pencils. 



It will be evident that the Patas a bandeau noir, and the Patas 

 a bandeau blanc, are here regarded as the same animal, notwithstanding 

 the differences pointed out by Fred. Cuvier, which appear to be de- 

 pendant upon age or season. The male, with its white moustaches, its 

 grey shoulders, and white arms and legs, from which the first description 

 is taken, closely agrees with that of the Patas a bandeau blanc, in F. 

 Cuvier's Mammalogie. 



GENERAL HISTORY. The Red Monkey, or Patas, common as it now 

 is in our menageries, has not often been either figured or described from 

 nature. Prosper Alpinus (Rerum Mgypt. iv.) gave the first account of 

 it under the name of Simius Callitrichus, accompanied by an indifferent 

 figure. From that time, to the time of Buffon, it appears to have been 

 unnoticed. This naturalist described and figured it under the title of 

 Patas a bandeau noir, et Patas a bandeau blanc. Schreber next de- 

 lineated it : recently it has been figured and described by F. Cuvier, and 

 again by E. T. Bennett, in the Gardens and Menagerie delineated. The 

 figure given in this work is from a specimen living in the menagerie of 

 the Zoological Society, London. In its native woods of Senegal, the Patas, 

 as it is denominated by the natives, associates in large troops, which 

 according to De la Brue, are in the habit of uniting together in the common 

 cause against an enemy. As he passed along the river, with his party, in 

 boats, they descended from the tops of the trees and advanced to the 

 extremity of the lower boughs, for the purpose of examining more closely 

 the objects below. Having, for some time, attentively watched the boats, 

 and no longer satisfied with remanining merely spectators, they began a 

 system of offensive operations, casting dry branches, and other missiles at 

 the party, who, in return, fired and killed several of the assailants. Upon 

 this, the survivors began to utter the most frightful cries, and undauntedly 

 redoubled their efforts at annoyance ; some gathered stones, others sticks, 

 and various missiles, for the purpose of hurling them at their enemies ; 

 and it was not until severely taught the inequality of the contest, that 

 they terminated it by a retreat. 



In captivity, the Patas is lively, but very spiteful and capricious ; 

 as with its race in general, its evil qualities become more developed, the 

 more it advances in age, when its liveliness degenerates into irascibility, 

 and its temper becomes morose and vindictive. Mr. Bennett observes, 

 that the young individual which he figured, had a habit, when pleased, of 

 dancing on all fours, in a peculiar and measured step, which was far from 

 being ungraceful, though, after a time, it became ludicrous from its 



