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tfnent of varieties among the Mammalia. The Ouanderou, 

 therefore, can only be considered, a species of the Maca- 

 . ques, distinguished by having the upper parts of the body 

 entirely black, with a large white ruff round the neck. 



M. F. Cuvier describes a female of this species in the 

 Parisian Menagerie. It was of a middle size, measur- 

 x ng (in French measure), eighteen inches from the muz- 

 zle to the beginning of the tail ; the tail itself mea- 

 sured ten inches, and the average height was about a 

 foot. The head, neck, shoulders, arms, back, flanks, 

 thighs, legs, crupper, and tail, were all of a very fine black. 

 The abdomen, breast and circle round the head, white- 

 The hairs were generally long, more especially on the head, 

 at the white ruff which grows from each side of the fore- 

 head, and is joined under the chin covering the posterior 

 part of the cheeks. At the extremity of the tail too, the 

 hairs are long, forming a sort of bunch. The face and 

 hands are black, but the callosities are reddish. 



The manners of this individual were mild and insinua- 

 ting, but it was very capricious as is the case with all the 

 Macaque species, on the duration of whose sentiments it is 

 impossible to reckon. The individual seen by Buflbn at the 

 fairs of St. Laurent, was a male of the most excessive malice. 

 Another, possessed afterwards by the King's Menageries 

 in Paris, was of the same disposition. Schreber and 

 Pennant, have each of them published a description of 

 two. The one under the name of Simia Silenus, the other 

 under that of the Lion-tailed monkey. 



An individual of this species was until lately for some 

 time in possession of Mr. Cross at Exeter Change, and 

 had for a companion in the same cage, a young mandrill. 

 The latter, not having attained the complete development 

 of its personal character or the savage moroseness of dis- 

 position incident to the adult state of this species was 

 much disposed to sportiveness and play. The ouanderou 



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