THE LIFE OF MAMMALS 
white, chestnut, yellow, and other tints. All feed mainly on 
leaves, flowers, and young shoots; utter loud, not unmusical 
cries, and move about in troops. Their long slender bodies 
and long limbs,. resembling those of the American spider 
monkeys, give them vast leaping powers, and astonishing 
flights will be made by a band, one after another, from some 
lofty tree top to a lower one, maybe thirty feet away. One trick 
is to spring upon a limb in such a way that in its recovery from 
the pressure of their fall it will lift them up to where they can 
seize another and so go on. Often the mothers carry a cling- 
ing young one in these perilous leaps, and the accuracy with 
which they calculate the dis- 
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One notable species is the 
° large wanderoo of Ceylon, so 
fully described by wose Mon- 
rag, = Tennent,” and the *° 
Yoliy We | XE object of quaint superstitions; 
but the most remarkable of all 
is the nose monkey of Borneo, 
which the Dyaks laughingly 
call ‘‘white man,” and which 
AN OLD MALE Nos Monkey. many naturalists place in a 
separate genus. This is of 
large size, is brown with gray rump, limbs, and tail, cheeks 
yellow, and a nose that gradually elongates with age, until in 
old ones it is a bulbous, wagging proboscis that hangs down 
below to the chin, and gives a most comical caricature of a 
human countenance to the face. They are nowhere com- 
mon and rarely seen, though their cry, like a deep tone from 
a bass viol, is a familiar sound beside the rivers of Sarawak. 
The remaining semnopithecines (genus Colobus) are Afri- 
can and differ from the Asiatic langurs by the absence of any 
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