288 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



but the second offspring shared the fate of the first. The 

 period of gestation was ascertained to be seven months. 



Buffon has spoken of the next species (the Maimon) or 

 Pig-tailed Baboon, and Daubenton has described the same 

 animal with his usual exactness. But Buffon seems to 

 think the Maimon, the same with the Pig-tailed monkey 

 or Baboon of Edwards, and naturalists admitting this have 

 made but one species of the two animals. Accordingly, 

 Audebert having to describe a species of the Macaque 

 subdivision, and not being able to make the animal before 

 him agree with the pig-tailed monkey, conceived that it 

 must be the short-tailed Macaque of Buffon, and gives a 

 figure under the name of Rhesus. Our author's brother, 

 having had at the Menagerie, a male and female of the 

 kind described by Edwards, which proved productive, and 

 five or six individuals of each age and sex, of the short- 

 tailed Macaque, is enabled to confirm the clear distinction 

 of species as laid down by the Baron. We shall not follow 

 him in his very minute description of colours, fyc., which 

 cannot prove very interesting to the general reader. One 

 singular characteristic of the Maimon is the extreme 

 flaccidity of its flesh. Even very young individuals are 

 found to possess on each side of the throat hanging 

 folds of flesh, which might be considered in other ani- 

 mals the signs of age, and the breasts and belly very 

 rapidly assume a similar character. Hence, when the 

 Maimon grows fat, it acquires a rotundity of form that 

 renders it almost monstrous. This is particularly mani- 

 fested in the females, whose teats enlarge excessively, as 

 well as the belly, and the features become almost lost in 

 masses of fat. Maimons of this description have been pre- 

 sented at exhibitions as a new and extraordinary species, 

 approximating to the Orang-outang, an error which the 

 rounded and flesh-coloured throat and red nipple have con- 

 tributed to give currency to. 



