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and an equal quantity under their arms and 

 in their mouths ; that they return thus loaded 

 leaping on their hind feet, and, when purfued, 

 they drop the ftalks which they held under their 

 arms and in their ha^nds, preferving only what 

 they carry in their teeth, to enable them to run 

 with more fpeed on their four feet. He adds, that 

 they examine, with the moft fcrupulous accura- 

 cy, every llalk of millet they pull, and, if it does 

 not pleafe them, they throw it on the ground, 

 and tear up others. By this delicacy of choice, 

 they do more damage than by their robberies*. 



Dijitncli-ve Chambers of this Species. 



The macaque has cheek -pouches, and callofi- 

 ties on his buttocks. His tail is from eighteen 

 to twenty inches long. His head is large, his 

 muzzle very thick, and his face naked, livid, and 

 wrinkled. His ears are covered with hair. His 

 body is fhort and fquat, and his limbs thick and 

 fhort. The hair on the fuperior parts of his 

 body is of a greenifh afli-colour, and of a yel- 

 lowifh gray on the breaft and belly. He has a 

 fmall creft of hair on the top of the head. He 

 walks on four and fometimes on two feet. The 

 length of his body, comprehending that of the 

 head, is about eighteen or twenty inches. In 

 this fpecies, there appear to be races much lar- 

 ger, 



* Voyage de Bofman, p. 258. 



