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vauc^el infers that this bag does not affect the voice of that 

 animal, or that its place is supplied in the Active Gibbon 

 by some analogous organ. 



The fingers of the upper hands of both these species touch 

 the ground when the animals stand erect. 



The Guenons appear to form by far the most numerous 

 of all the quadrumanous families, and to present the 

 greatest variety of specific differences. Most naturalists 

 have arranged them after the Baboons, but our author, we 

 conceive with great propriety, has bestowed on them the 

 second place in the order. Less anthropomorphous than 

 the Apes, by the elongation of the muzzle, and other qua- 

 drupedal peculiarities, less intelligent, less susceptible of 

 attachment, and perhaps less capable of instruction, they 

 are yet considerably removed from the disgusting ugliness, 

 the malignant ferocity, the utter brutality of the Baboons. 

 Many of them are indeed distinguished by no ordinary ele- 

 gance of form and colour ; and though the love of mischief 

 seems to be a feature in their character, very generally 

 predominant, they are tamed without much difficulty, and 

 their sagacity and frolicsome disposition, are often made 

 subservient to the purposes of profit and amusement. 



The Entellus, which our author has placed at the head of 

 the Guenons, and of which he has told us so little, is a 

 species, according to the French naturalists very lately dis- 

 covered. At least, it has but lately been known to zoolo- 

 gical classification, and we are indebted for its notice to M. 

 Dufresne. It must have often been seen by travellers, for it is 

 a species of the Quadrumana, extremely common in Bengal 

 its native climate. It is probably to this very circumstance 

 that our ignorance respecting it is owing. Travellers are 

 not unfrequently the least curious regarding objects which 

 are the most common; drawing, not an unnatural, though 

 many times a very erroneous conclusion, that frequent 



