THE MONKEY. 



Female Orang-i ut id 



mm ■ ' r- -• : our attention was then diverted i »" a moment to the Satyr 

 had disappeared. She also drank some milk, but without m •'•• : • 



The accompanying engraving is 

 a portrait of the interesting ani- 

 mal which was formerly an inmate 

 of the Surrey Zoological Gardens ; 

 it is shown in an attitude which 

 displays its mode of action in a 

 state of nature. 



The animal is one of four which 

 were brought in a trading vessel to 

 Calcutta, where they were pur- 

 chased and shipped for England. 

 Its height, from the top of the 

 head to the heel, is two feet two 

 inches, and its weight does not 

 exceed fifteen pounds advoirdu- 

 pois. The fore limb, from the 

 shoulder to the end of the middle 

 finger, measures the extraordinary 

 length of one foot nine inches ; 

 and the length of the hand alone, 

 from the wrist to the tip of the 

 middle finger, is six inches and a 

 half. The palm of the hand 

 measures three inches and a half; 

 the sole of the foot five inches ; 

 and the width over the breast is 

 nine inches. 



This animal exhibited an indif- 

 ference to food not usual with 

 her congeners. A visiter of the 

 Gardens says, " She did not deign 

 to hold out her hand for some 

 fruit that was offered. At last 

 she accepted a large strawberry, 

 and held it with great indifference 

 in her fingers for about five 

 and in the interval the strawberry 



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 Hunting the Orang-cutan 



Red Monkey. 



