LION-TAILED MONKi^JV. 9 



manners and disposition, however, are confessedly so 

 much alike, that one description is applicable to both. 

 They are more docile and less mischievous than the 

 common green monkey ; but like them are constantly 

 in motion, and assuming strange grotesque attitudes. 

 M. F. Cuvier remarks, that, from the wonderful vi- 

 vacity of their motions, an observer would almost 

 imagine that their limbs were stronger, and furnished 

 with more joints, than those of ordinary monkeys. The 

 females, as is generally the case, are more docile and gentle 

 than the males. They have a singular mode of expressing 

 their feelings, by raising their lips, and showing their 

 teeth ; and they exhibit another peculiarity in always 

 carrying their tails completely reversed — that is, in nearly 

 a parallel line with the back. Both these races occur in the 

 same regions, and appear confined to Tropical Africa. 



The colours of the two races generally called by this 

 name, are very similar. In that called by M. Geoffroy 

 the Smoke-coloured Monkey (^C. fuliginosus), the pre- 

 valent tint is grey slate-brown, without any spot on the 

 head or neck, while the other has the fur of a vinaceous 

 brown, which becomes red on the crown of the head : 

 there is also a white band between the eyes, which is 

 continued to each side of the back of the neck. In both, 

 however, the upper eyelid is white. To this latter, the 

 original name of iEthiops is more strictly applied. 



The Lion-tailed Monkey. 



Cercocebus Silenus, Uliger. Simla Silenus, Linn. Occan- 

 derou, Buff. Papio Silenus, Geoff. Lion-tailed Baboon, 

 Pennant. 



The tufted tail of this animal, by some called a 

 monkey, and by others a baboon, has procured it the 

 trivial name of Lion-tailed ; and perhaps to the same 

 cause, as well as to the malicious character assigned to 

 the species by Buffon, we may attribute its more classic 

 name of Satyrus. The species is mentioned by many 

 of the old travellers ; and although not very common 

 in our menageries, it is sometimes brought alive to 



