MISCHIEVOUS INDIAN MONKEYS 
ling“ and Felix Oswald ™ tell entertaining stories of their 
too familiar ways. Sometimes a community will capture a 
band and ship them away, but if they do not come back others 
will take their places, and their thieveries must be guarded 
against incessantly. Near Simla there is a famous “ monkey 
temple,” on Jakko Hill, said to be presided over by a queer, 
fanatical fakir who is by birth and education a European. 
Like most monkeys these Indian langurs abominate the 
tiger, and a troop racing overhead and “slanging ” the king of 
ENTELLUS MONKEY OR HANUMAN. 
the jungle has many a time led to the downfall of his striped 
majesty; therefore tiger hunters join with priests in defend- 
ing the little gray mischief-makers, laughing at their black 
faces and well-brushed whiskers as they peer saucily down 
through the foliage. 
Some twenty-five or thirty other species of leaf-eating langurs 
are scattered wherever forests occur, from the snowy heights 
of Kashmir to Borneo, and many most interesting things are 
related of them by Blanford, Jerdon, Hose, Wallace, Blyth, 
Swinhoe, Hornaday, Forbes, and other writers familiar with 
that part of the world. Some of them are gay with black, 
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