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It has, as Fig. 131 shows, a narrow, elongated and naked face, 

 with a flat nose and prominent round ears. The general coloration 

 is sooty-black above and grey below. The length of the body is 

 about twenty-one inches, and the short tail measures only one inch. 

 The black face distinguishes this species from the Brown and 

 Japanese Macaques, the faces of those beasts being bright red. 



PIG-TAILED MAC AQTJE. This excellently-named Macaque (Fig. 

 132) is found in Tenasserim, Southern Burma, the Malay Peninsula, 

 Bangka, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. It is so called, of course, 

 because of the pointed tail, which is eight inches in length and 

 carried in an erect position, the length of the body being about 

 eighteen inches. It is thus a good-sized Monkey, and, as Fig. 132 

 displays, it has a broad head, a long muzzle, powerful limbs, short 

 fur, that on the head standing erect, and giving it the appearance 

 of the head of a close-cropped school-boy. The fur is mostly olive 

 in colour, with the hairs grey at the base, and ringed alternately with 

 yellow and black ; the deep-brown or blackish-brown head is relieved 

 by the blackish-grey sides of the face, whilst the under-parts of the 

 body are greyish- white. 



The Pig-tail is an inhabitant of low-lying countries, and goes 

 about in large troops, feeding upon fruits, seeds and insects. It is 

 recorded that this is an easily tamed Monkey when taken young, 

 and has been used for climbing cocoanut-trees to throw down the 

 nuts, and it is specially worth noticing that we are told it is only 

 the ripe fruit that the Macaque is taught to handle. 



OTHER MACAQUES. Mention may here be made of other promi- 

 nent members of this interesting and large group of Monkeys, 

 such as the Bonnet Monkey, which has a prominent crest of hair on 

 the crown of the head; the Crab-Eating Macaque, which feeds 

 largely on crabs ; the Lion-Tailed Monkey of Western India, which 

 has an enormous grey beard and ruff almost surrounding the black 

 face ; the Bengal, or Rhesus, Monkey, which, unlike the last-named, 

 does not possess any trace of either a beard or ruff, and is dis- 

 tinguished by the erectness of its hair, and being probably the best 

 known of all the Macaques; the Brown Stump-Tailed Monkey, 

 which, as the name indicates, has quite a rudimentary caudal appen- 

 dage, and the Magot, or Barbary, Macaque, which does not possess 

 a tail at all ! Thus, from the lengthy tail of the Bonnet Macaque, 

 measuring almost, if not quite, the length of the whole body, one 

 can trace in an interesting way the gradual disappearance of the tail, 



