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ANI3IALS IN MENAGERIES. 



to the whole tribe^ but are peculiarly striking in the 

 present genus^ in consequence of the prominence of their 

 foreheads in a young state, are accompanied by a cor- 

 responding change in the habits of the animals. When 

 taken at an early age they are readily tamed, become 

 playful and familiar, are extremely agile, although ge- 

 nerally calm and circumspect in their motions, and learn 

 to perform a variety of tricks, which they execute with 

 no little cunning and address. After a time, however, 

 their playfulness wears off; their confidence is succeeded 

 by mistrust; their agility settles down into a hstless 

 apathy ; and instead of resorting, as before, to the re- 

 sources of their ingenuity for carrying any particular 

 point, they have recourse to the brute force which they 

 have acquired in its stead. At length they become as 

 mischievous, and sometimes even as dangerous, as any 

 of those monkeys which in their young state offer no 

 such indications of good temper and intelligence." * 



The height of the living specimen, formerly at the 

 Zoological Gardens, when in a sitting position, exceeded 

 two feet ; and the length of the tail, which was usually 

 curled in a single coil, measured nearly three. The 

 upper parts of the body in this species are uniform ashy 

 grey, darkest on the tail, which is throughout of equal 

 thickness. The under parts are dingy yellowish white : 

 the arms, hands, and feet are dusky black; the face is 

 also blackish : above the eye-brows is a line of long, 

 stiff, projecting, black hairs : a greyish white beard 

 passes round the face, and extends upwards in front of 

 the ears, which are long and prominent, and black ; 

 this beard is not pendent, but protrudes forward : the 

 tail is tipped with a few long hairs. 



The Negro Monkey. 



Semnopithecus Maurus, Cuv. Simla Maura, Linn. Guenon 

 Negre, Buff. Negro Monkey, Pennant. 



The veracious Edwards was the first British natural- 

 ist who recorded this species as being in the menageries 



» Zool. Gard. vi. p. 84. 



