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roots, bread, biscuits, eggs, and occasionally live sparrows and a few grass- 
hoppers, making allowances for individual tastes. Excluding animal food of 
all kinds whatever, the diet prescribed for the various species of Hylobates 
and for the orang will do well for the Semmnopithecus entellus, with the addition 
of a sufficient quantity of leaves, ‘The crested semnote (S. cristatus) and 
Phayre’s leaf-monkey (S. phayri) live best on the diet prescribed for the 
orang. The Assam langur (S. pileatus) is less fond of leaves than the other 
Semnopithect. Several of them have exhibited a slight partiality for the leaves 
of a species of Amaranthus (xatya sag), The proboscis (S. larvatus) and the 
red-haired monkeys (S. rubicundus) like the green stalks of paddy and wheat 
and young shoots of kalmi (Convolvulus reptens). Experience gained in the 
Gardens has shown that the Cercopitheci—forms peculiar to the fauna of the 
Ethiopian region—hitherto exhibited there, viz., Cercopithecus diana, C. cyno- 
surus, C. callitricus, C. talapoin, C, nictitans, C. pluto, C. petaurista, C. 
cephus, C. patas, C. mona, thrive well on the same kind of food as is ordinarily 
given to the hoolocks, hanumans and other semnotes. The monkeys of the genus 
Macacus are almost omnivorous : boiled rice, soaked gram, biscuits, pumpkins, 
cucumber, brinjals, and other vegetables constitute their ordinary food. Eggs 
are occasionally given to them as substitutes for the insects and spiders which, 
in their wild state, they are accustomed to eat, besides fruits and vegetables, 
minced meat being sometimes, but rarely, given. The Cynocephali,* or the 
baboons (Cynocephalus hamadryas and C. porcarius),do well when fed on a 
vegetable diet consisting of fruits, roots, grain, boiled rice, with a change of 
egos and grasshoppers. The same diet as that on which the hoolock is fed has 
been found to constitute capital food for the mandrill (C. mormon). The 
lemurs (Lemur mongoz, L. varius, and L. flavifrons) feed on fruit, eggs, 
bread, and milk. 
The feeding of the birds, however, is not so expensive as that of the mam- 
mals, for most of the articles of diet of which they are fond, such as maggots, 
berries, &c., are to be had in abundance in the Gardens themselves. The prin- 
cipal food of the majority of the birds are seeds, soft fleshed fruits, berries, 
maggots, satoo, and, occasionally, minced meat made into pellets. Some of the 
aquatic birds, ‘however, find their own food, such as fish, crustaceans, &c., 
from the tanks and jhils in the Gardens. Experience has shown that an early 
meal, consisting of maize, barley, wheat, or other grain, pounded together with 
a small quantity of egg-shell, green food later on, and grains and seeds anda 
few grasshoppers or meal worms in the evening, forms a capital diet for the 
* Another species of this genus, viz., the Guinea baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx, Linn.) has 
been represented in the Gardens ; and I distinctly remember haying seen, in 1885,a speci- 
men of it inthe Gubboy House, which was on deposit there. But I regret to find that this 
animal has not been noticed in the present work. There are many other omissions, which 
will be noticed in their respective places. A magnificent specimen of the drill (Cynocephalus 
leucopheus, F, Cuy.) has also heen recently added to the collection—haying been acquired in 
December last. 
