284 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



Magots, the species Pithecus, and of the adult male Magot, 

 the species Cynocephalus. The observations of M. de 

 Blainville, on the monkey dissected by Galen, have estab- 

 lished the fact that the Pithecus was our Magot, but as we 

 are not acquainted with any Macaque without a tail, it is 

 impossible for us to make any precise application of Aris- 

 totle's Cynocephalus. It appears probable from every con- 

 sideration, that this author was induced to make the two 

 species by an error of the same kind as that committed by 

 our modern Zoologists, in separating the young Magots 

 from the adults. Of the true Cynocephalus he was obvi- 

 ously ignorant, which is a species belonging to a very differ- 

 ent group, and some of which are found to be figured on 

 all the monuments of the Egyptians, and which were wor- 

 shipped by those people, and principally at Hermopolis. 



However that may be, the Magot is so frequently seen in 

 Europe, that it is one of the best known of the Quadru- 

 mana. It has been, however, designated under very differ- 

 ent names — Prosper Alpin, and Brisson, call it the Cyno- 

 cephalus. It is the Innuus and Sylvanus of Linnaeus and 

 other systematic writers, who have adopted the distinction 

 above alluded to of Pithecus and Cynocephalus. 



The Ouanderou, placed first among the Macaques by 

 Cuvier, is a species aboriginal in the East Indies, and not 

 often seen in Europe. It was known to naturalists by the ac- 

 counts of some travellers. Robert Knox, in his account of 

 the island of Ceylon, appears to have given a figure of it. 

 Daubenton and Buffon have given it the name of Ouande- 

 rou, a name applied by Knox to many monkeys, differing 

 from each other in colour, but which he regarded as varie- 

 ties of the same species. This idea has been adopted by 

 some naturalists, but does not appear well very founded. 

 At all events such an opinion ought not to be delivered in a 

 dogmatic way, unsupported by proof. Direct observation 

 is the only guide which we can safely follow for the establish- 



