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would not tamely endure the attack of a single hunter ; but experience 

 proves that these animals, at large, however they may grin and gnash 

 their teeth at the sportsman, whose gun is dealing slaughter among them, 

 hesitate, or have not sufficient intelligence, to commence a simultaneous 

 onset, but sooner or later make a hasty retreat. 



The Vervet is common in the forests along the Great Fish River, and 

 other streams, between Algoa Bay and Cape Town. Its range extends 

 also along the Natal coast, throughout the Amakozah country, and 

 Caffre land generally, where most travellers through these regions have 

 met with it. Its food consists of fruits, and particularly of the gum 

 which exudes from various species of acacia. Though abundant in the 

 Cape colony, it is rarely imported alive into Europe, much less so, indeed, 

 than the Chacma, probably because it is not so easily captured; the 

 young, when the parents are shot, having better opportunities of escape 

 among the forest branches, than the Baboon among the rocks. 



THE DIANA MONKEY. 



CERCOPITHECUS DIANA. (Cercopithecus Diana, ERXLEBEN, Syst. Regn. An. 1788.) 



Exquima cere. barbatus\Guineensis, MARCGKAVE, Hist. Rer. Nat. Braz. 227, c. figurS. 1648. 



Simla Diana LINNJEDS, Stockholm Trans, c. figura, for 1754, 210, and Syst. 



Nat. ed. 12. 1766. 



Spoiled Monkey PENNANT, Synops. Quad. 1771. 



Palatine vel Rolowai ALLAMAND, Hist. Nat. BUFFON, ed. Sonn. xv. pi. 77. 1779. 



Le Roloway ou la Palatine . . BUFFON, Hist. Nat. Suppl. vii. 77. 1789. 

 Palatine and Spotted Monkey . PENNANT, Quad. 1793. 



La Diane AUDEBERT, Singes et Mak. Fam. iv. sect. ii. pi. 6. 1797. 



Palatine and Spotted Monkey . SHAW, Gen. Zool. 1800. 



Cercopithecus Diana GEOFFROY, Ann. du Mus. xix. 1812. 



Cercopithecus Diadema .... KUHL, Beitr. 1820. 



Cercopithecus Diana DESMAREST, Mamm. p. 60. 1820. 



Simla Diana and Roloway . . FISCHER, Synops. Mamm. pp. 19, 20. 1829. 

 Cercopithecus Diana LESSON, Species des Mamm. p. 72. 1840, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. General colour, dark freckled grey, passing into black on the 

 limbs ; a long stripe down the back, chestnut coloured ; a frontal semilunar mark, 

 and the beard, which is peaked, white ; throat, chest, and anterior part of shoulders, 

 white ; inside of thighs, fulvous, or orange red ; outside of thighs marked with an 

 oblique white stripe ; face and ears black. 



LOCALITIES. Guinea, Congo, Fernando Po. 



DESCRIPTION. The top of the head, the back of the neck, the 

 shoulders, the sides, and the middle of the body beneath, are of a deep, 

 grizzled, ashy grey, each hair being annulated with white and black, and 

 tipped with white. On the outside of the limbs, the colour thus produced, 

 becomes darker, and, finally, passes into black on the hands ; the tail is 

 grey, becoming darker to the tip, which is black ; a semilunar line, of 

 long projecting white hairs, surmounting a less conspicuous one of black, 

 passes across the forehead, and from its resemblance to " Dian's silver 



