66 THE GREEN MONKEY. 



with it^ by taking in their mouths as much as they 

 can carry, and putting a quantity under their arms 

 and in each paw. Thus laden they return to their 

 retreats, leaping all the way on their hind feet. If 

 they are so unfortunate as to be pursued, they do 

 not, in their alarm, let the whole fall, in order to 

 run oft: they drop the stalks which they held in their 

 hands, and under their arms, that they may run on their 

 four feet, which they do with more speed than on two, 

 but still carefully retain what they carried in their 

 mouth. They exaiiine with the most scrupulous 

 accuracy, every stalk they pull, and those they find 

 not perfectly suited to their purpose, they throw on 

 the ground, and tear up others instead. By this deli- 

 cacy of choice they often do infinitely more damage 

 than even by what they take away *. 



They are mild and very tractable animals, but so 

 dirty, ugly, and loathsome, that when they make 

 their grimaces, they are scarcely to be viewed with- 

 out disgust and horror. — The natives take tliem in 

 snares concealed among the branches of the trees, 

 wliere they are continually skipping about in the 

 most active and ridiculous- gambols '|~. 



THE GREEN MOXKEY |'. 



Mr. A.danson says the woods of Podor, in Africa, 

 are filled with a species of Green Monkey. These 



■ Posman 243. — Barbot, v. 212. Tli- account has been apjilied by 

 some naturalists only to the present species ; but Bosnian, wlio is their 

 jir.ncijial authority, makes it common to most of the ^Monicies that 

 are found on the coast of Guinea. f Barbot. 



X Synonyms. — Simia Saba:a. Linn. — Cuilitriche. Bu'J'on. — Grcea 

 Monkey. Pennant. 



