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Some of the Macaques are distinguished by a short tail. 
M. rhesus; Rhesus, Audeb. fam. ii; Patas a queue courte, ib. 
pl. 4, and Buff. Supp. XIV. pl. 16; the first baboon figured by Buff. 
XV: pee Loe: (The Pig-tailed Baboon). Greyish; a fawn-co- 
loured tinge on the head and crupper, sometimes on the back; face 
flesh-colour; tail reaching below the hamstrings. From Bengal}. 
Sim. menestrinus, L.; Sim. platypigos, Schreb.; Audeb. fam. ii, 
sect. 1, pl. 2.; Fr. Cuv. Mammif. under the name of Singe a queue 
de cochon. (The Brown Baboon). Deep brown above; black band 
beginning on the head, and fading as it extends along the back; yel- 
lowish round the head and limbs; tail thin and wrinkled. 
Inuus, Cuv. 
Mere Macaques, which have a small tubercle in lieu of a tail. 
S. silvanus, pithecus and inuus, Lin.; Buff. XIV. 7,8; Fr. Cuv. 
Mammif. (The Barbary Ape). Completely covered with a light 
grey-brown hair, and of all monkeys, is the one that suffers least 
from our climate. He is originally from Barbary, but is said to 
have become naturalised in the most inaccessible parts of the rock of 
Gibraltar §. 
CynocErHatus, C.|| 
The Dog-headed Monkeys, together with the teeth, cheek-pouches and 
callosities of the Inuus, Cuv., have an elongated muzzle truncated at the 
end, in which the nostrils are pierced, giving it a greater resemblance to 
that of a dog than of any other monkey; their tail varies in length. 
They are generally large, ferocious and dangerous animals, found mostly 
in Africa. 
* The two specimens used by Audebert are still in the Museum. I have exa- 
mined them and find they are both of one species. 
{+ The Macaque a queue courte of Buff. Supp. VII. pl. 18, (Sim. erytrhea, Schr.) 
appears to me to be a true Macaque (8. cynomolgus), whose tail had been amputated. 
{ Add the Macaque de Vv Inde, and the Macaque a face rouge, Fr. Cuv. Mammif. 
§ The Pitheque of Buff. Supp. VII. pl. 4 and 5, was a young Magot(a). His Lit- 
tle Cynocephalus, ib. pl. 6, and the Great and Little Cynocephala of Prosper Alpin 
are also of that species. s4yx0g is the Greek term for monkeys in general, and the 
one whose anatomy has been given by Galen was a Magot, although Camper thought it 
was an Ourang-Outang. M. de Blainville perceived this mistake, and I have proved 
it by comparing with these two species all that Galen has stated respecting the ana- 
tomy of his pithecus. 
|| Cynocephalus, dog’s head, a name well known to the ancients, especially as the 
dog played a conspicuous part in the symbols of the Egyptians, in which it repre- 
sented Tot or Mercury. 
(a) The Pigmy, or Barbary ape, of which species a male and female are in the 
Surrey Zoological Gardens, is distinguished in India as an object of superstitious re- 
verence, to which temples have been raised. In the confined state these animals will- 
ingly received every sort of food, with the exception of that of animal; they scarcely 
ever eat any portion, before they broke the whole. The male was capricious, and 
sometimes ill tempered, and we have seen the female always acting in such a man- 
ner that shewed fear as well as gentle submission; she usually approached the male 
by proceeding around him in a circular walk, and with her eyes constantly upon him, 
as if to watch the favourable moment for shortening the distance between them. The 
jealousy shewn by him when a visitor took notice of the female, was instantly mani- 
fested by repeated blows.—ENa. Ep. 
