146 THE TOWER MENAGERIE. 
figure to the Cercopithecus pileatus of M. Geoffroy 
St. Hilaire, the Guenon couronnée of Buffon, which 
M. Cuvier suspects, with great appearance of truth, to 
be nothing more than_a variety of the Macacus Sinicus, 
the Bonnet Chinois of the same popular author. It 
differs from that in fact in little else than in a shorter 
muzzle, and in a less regularly radiated and depressed 
disposition of the hair of the upper part of the head; 
characters which may be fairly regarded. as resulting 
from its immature age. We may also observe that the 
Macacus radiatus, Geoff., described in the succeeding 
article, does not appear to be by any means clearly dis- 
tinguished from the Bonnet Chinois; and that it is 
highly probable that these three Monkeys form in reality 
but a single species. 
All these animals, which are at present confined in 
one cage along with several young individuals of the 
common species of Baboon and with the Bonneted 
Monkey, exhibit a mixture of playfulness and malice, 
which renders them extremely amusing. Their gambols 
with each other are often truly laughable. 
Awa GS 
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