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These animals are aborigines of India. They people the 

 forests on the banks of the Ganges, and encouraged by 

 that invincible repugnance which the Hindoos exhibit to 

 take away life, they come, with impunity, in considerable 

 numbers into the towns and cities, to search for more agree- 

 able food than they can find in the woods. 



The natural character of the Maimons is altogether in- 

 tractable. While young, indeed, they are susceptible of 

 some familiarity. But they soon grow malicious, and age 

 renders them extremely ferocious. As they are far from defi- 

 cient in intelligence and penetration, their malice is of a 

 very dangerous character. 



In conclusion on the Macaques, we shall just observe, that 

 the pig-tailed baboon of Shaw, which is the Rhesus of 

 Audebert, is distinct from the pig-tailed baboon of Edwards, 

 the latter of which is the brown baboon of Shaw and the 

 long-legged baboon of Pennant and Buffon. Shaw's pig- 

 tailed baboon is now called the Maimon, a name which 

 Linnasus applied as specific to a young specimen of the Mor- 

 mon or Mandrill, the great baboon of Pennant, and the 

 varied baboon of Shaw, so that these three species of ani- 

 mals are involved in considerable confusion, from which, 

 perhaps, they are scarcely yet completely extricated. F. 

 Cuvier has, however, in some measure, dispelled the mists 

 of error on this subject. He declares, from observation, the 

 Maimon and Rhesus to be clearly distinct ; and, as we find 

 by consulting a later number of his great work, he seems 

 to think the name of Rhesus more applicable to the animal 

 we have just described, than that of Maimon. The " Singe 

 a queue de Cochon" he thinks the same as the Maimon. 

 For the satisfaction of such readers as are fond of preci- 

 sion, we shall give his statement of the synonymes of these 

 animals. 



The pig-tailed baboon, or Rhesus of Audebert, is the 

 short-tailed Macaque of Buffon, the short-tailed Patas of 

 the same writer, and the animal we have just described 



