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gestures which have been construed into bows and 

 courtesies, and jumping about in a kind of artificial 

 dance. To this somewhat overstrained comparison 

 BufFon adds that they are so fond of display as to 

 prefer the pleasure of exhibiting themselves even to 

 that of eating, and to follow those who are on the 

 point of quitting them for the purpose as it were of 

 soliciting another glance of admiration. For our own 

 parts we must confess that we have never observed, in 

 any of the specimens that we have seen, those symp- 

 toms of affectation which may perhaps be obvious to 

 a more lively fancy. Their manners appear to us to 

 differ but little in this respect from those of others of 

 their tribe, the only material distinction consisting in 

 the gracefulness with which they execute motions that 

 in others are not unfrequently awkward and even ludi- 

 crous. 



The Society's specimens formed part of a valuable 

 present, which arrived at the beginning of the summer, 

 from Hanmer Warrington, Esq. the British Consul at 

 Tripoli. 



