GUENONS, MANGABEYS, AND Al1CAQUES 
are the most ornamental of all the monkey tribe. None, per- 
haps, exceeds in prettiness the mona and Diana, with white 
fronts and well-combed hair and beards. 
The guenons, says Forbes, are entirely confined to Africa, where they 
live entirely in the forest regions, herding together in large troops. “They 
can move from tree to tree with great rapidity, and can climb 
even on vertical surfaces with surprising quickness. They are 
abrupt and energetic in their movements, restless and noisy, incessantly 
chattering and making grimaces. .. Their food consists of leaves, birds’ 
eggs, and honey, but pre€minently of fruits, while they are especially destruc- 
tive to the ripe grain fields of the natives near the woods in which they live. 
The guenons are not only restless but very inquisitive; they are, there- 
fore, when young very easily tamed and as a consequence they are fre- 
quently to be seen as performers in circuses and exhibitions. When aged 
they are unreliable in temper, and often very ill-dispositioned. They are 
said also to repel with missiles any intruders into the region in which they 
are established in any numbers.”’ 
Guenons. 
The mangabeys are a smaller group of West African mon- 
keys, intermediate between the guenons and the macaques, 
but their hairs are not ringed. The half a dozen species are 
blackish or brownish with white markings, the eyelids invari- 
ably white. 
The cercopithecines form a group of rather large, short- 
tailed Old World monkeys, represented by the macaques and 
baboons, whose special mark is the possession of cheek pouches. 
All the macaques are Asiatic except one, — the magot or 
Barbary ape, to be spoken of later. Seventeen species are 
recognized, scattered from Baluchistan to northern 
China and Japan, and southeastward to Timor, 
some widespread, others restricted to a narrow habitat on some 
single island, mountain range, or bit of coast. They vary in 
size from thirteen inches (nose to root of tail) to nearly three 
feet, and the males are always much larger than the females, 
and have bigger canine teeth. The tail is long in a few, but 
short in most, and many have a distensible sac in the throat. 
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Macaques. 
