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Under its projecting forehead, (says Mr Bingly,) are two small and vivid 
eyes, situated so near to each other, that their position alone gives to the 
physiognomy an air of ferocity, An enormous muzzle, indicative of the 
most brutal passions, terminates in a broad and rounded extremity of a fiery 
red color, from which continually oozes a mucous humor. The cheeks, 
greatly swollen and deeply furrowed, are naked, and of a deep blue color. 
A narrow, blood-colored ridge extends down the middle of the face, and 
terminates in the nose. Round the neck the hair is very long. On the 
sides of the head it joins that at the top, and the whole terminates in a 
somewhat pointed form. Each hair of the body is annulated with black and 
yellow ; so that the whole fur has a greenish brown hue. 
One of these animals was exhibited at Charing Cross, London. He some- 
times sat in a chair, smoked a pipe, drank spirits and water, and appeared 
to understand every look and gesture of his keeper. He had a very con- 
tented look, and passed under the name of “Happy Jerry.” 
When standing upright, the mandrill is in height from three feet anda 
half to five feet. It is to be found on the Gold Coast, in several other parts 
of Africa, and also in the East Indies and the Indian Archipelago. Its 
voice bears some resemblance to the roaring of a lion. No art or kindness 
can in the least subdue its brutal propensities; and its. great strength 
renders it an object of perpetual dread to its keepers. Yet it is not, strictly 
speaking, a carnivorous animal; for, though it will eat meat that has been 
cooked, its usual food is fruit and nuts 
THE COLLET AS 
- Next to the warine, and the alouato, the coaita, or four-fingered monkey, 
is the largest of the sapajous.* There was one alive at the Duke of Bouil- 
lon’s, where, by its familiarity and forward caresses, it merited the affection 
of those who had it under their care; but in spite of the good treatment and 
attention paid to it, it could not resist the winter of the year 1764. It differs 
greatly in disposition from the warine and the alouato, which are wild and 
untameable. It also differs from them in having but four’ fingers, and no 
thumb to the fore paws: by this character alone, and its holding tail, it is 
1 Ateles paniscus. The genus Afeles has four upper and four lower incisors ; two upper 
and two lower canines ; twelve upper and twelve lower molars. Canines a little projecting, 
crossing one another, conical; molars with blunt crowns, as those of man; head round; 
face perpendicular; facial angle, about sixty degrees; ears hardened ; extremities very long 
and slender; the anterior ones, generally tetradactyle; thumb, none, or only replaced by a 
wart, or extremely short, and armed with a little sharp nail; posterior pentadactyle ; nail, 
convex and short; tail extremely long, strongly srebenaile. having a part without hair, 
and covered with a delicate skin toward its extremity. | 
* The sapajous are apes peculiar to the American continent, having long, prehensile 
