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the body. The muzzle is short and blunt. The nose is 

 fiat, and there is a strong' crest, which advancing beyond 

 the brows covers the eyes. The fingers are united by a 

 membrane as far as the second phalanx. His position is 

 either on all-fours, or sitting on his callosities. He sits in 

 either of these attitudes, carrying his aliments to his mouth 

 with his fingers, or gathering them up, with the mouth 

 itself. Before he swallows he always fills his cheek pouches 

 and drinks by suction. He sleeps either couched on his 

 side or seated. His generic characters are in ail respects 

 like those of the Magot. Of the colours of this Macaque 

 we shall add nothing to the description of our author. 



The female is considerably smaller than the male, and 

 her proportions are more compact. The head is smaller, 

 and the superciliary crest not so prominent, though it 

 equally covers the eyes. The canine teeth are small and 

 scarcely pass the incisors, which is a character of all the 

 females of this subdivision. The face is surrounded with 

 gray hairs long and straight. The hairs of the summit of the 

 head, are directed towards the medial line, and form there 

 an elevated crest, constituting the character of the Egret. 

 It seems extremely probable that the Egret, is nothing but 

 a female Macaque. 



From the union of these two individuals a young female 

 Macaque was born on the night of the 10th of October, 

 1817, at the French Menagerie. The particulars previous 

 and subsequent to this important event, are detailed by 

 the learned naturalist above referred to, with a circum- 

 stantial minuteness which we cannot be expected to follow. 

 Suffice it to say, that the mother entirely neglected her 

 offspring, which soon perished, though its scientific foster 

 fathers, tried to nourish it artificially. This aberration of 

 instinct is by no means uncommon in animals in a state 

 of captivity. Their faculties seem altogether revolutionized. 

 This female proved again productive in the following year, 



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