TAME MACAQUES 
wool to resist the cold. This monkey is rarely molested by 
the Hindoos, so that around certain temples hundreds will 
come at the call of 
the fakirs to get 
rice and peas; and 
it is the common 
juggler’s trickster 
of northern India. 
The lion tailed 
macaque is kept 
tame in large num- 
bers by the natives 
of the western coast 
of India, where it 
is considered the 
luckiest thing in the 
world to see one of 
them the first thing 
on awakening in 
the morning; hence 
their owners carry 
them about with : 
them when travel- copyright, N. ¥. Zoa1. Society. Sanborn, Phot. 
ing, even upon a THE BENGAL OR RHESUS MONKEY. 
railroad train. 
There remains only the Barbary ape, or magot, which dwells 
in Morocco and Algeria, especially about Constantine, and 
is preserved in a small free band on the Rock of Gibraltar; 
but nobody knows whether it is indigenous or, as is more prob- 
able, was carried thither long ago. The authors of “The 
Gardens and Menageries of the Zodlogical Society” of Lon- 
don, written about 1830, mention that this ape “has even estab- 
lished itself on the Rock of Gibraltar, where it is said to have 
become extremely abundant.” It is about two and a half 
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