10 ANI3IALS IN MENAGERIES. 



Europe. It appears to inhabit the forests of Ceylon, 

 but of its natural habits we are altogether ignorant. 

 In captivity, it has been described as a most vicious and 

 malignant animal; and such was the character of two 

 individuals mentioned by BuiFon : yet another, formerly 

 at Exeter Change, seems to have been much the reverse, 

 and not to have possessed any bad qualities ; while a 

 fourth, observed by Mr. Griffiths in Wombwell's col- 

 lection, " was so far gentle and sociable, as not to be 

 confined within a cage, but merely fastened by a light 

 chain of some length. In this situation, had the 

 animal been so disposed, it might have found oppor- 

 tunities of gratifying those malicious and savage inclin- 

 ations which have been attributed to the whole race. 

 The same writer very justly observes, " that it is at all 

 times difficult to discover the real character of a species, 

 from a few individuals. Their dispositions undergo 

 changes, equally great with their persons, at different 

 periods of their existence ; so that both the personal 

 and moral character of an animal may be widely dif- 

 ferent, and equally true, when taken during the young, 

 adolescent, or aged period of its life." 



M. F. Cuvier describes a female, as then living in 

 the Paris menagerie. The length of the body was about 

 eighteen French inches; that of the tail, ten. The whole 

 animal was of a very fine deep black, excepting the belly, 

 breast, and a circle or ruff of long hairs round the head, 

 all which parts were white : the face and hands were also 

 black; but the callosities on the buttocks were reddish. 

 This is probably the Full-bottom Monkey of Dr. Shaw. 



The Entellus Monkey. 



Semnopithecus entellus, Cui\, Zool. Gard. iv. 82. 



Living specimens of this monkey are rarely seen in 

 the menageries of Europe, and even preserved skins are 

 seldom to be met with in our museums. Designed by 

 nature to inhabit the hottest regions of Tropical India, 

 it is peculiarly suceptible of a lower temperature ; since 

 it is related that one, in the possession of the celebrated 



