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THE APES AND MONKEYS. 



■whitish ; the nose, mouth and eyebrows are black, 

 while the face is of a light brown color. 



The Diana Among the prettiest and most grace- 

 Monhey of ful of the Guenons is the Diana 



Western Africa. Monkey ( Cercopithecus diana) whose 

 color is slate-gray, merging into auburn on the back, 

 •while the under surface of the body and the beard 

 are pure white. He is a native of Western Africa. 

 The name is due to a crescent-shaped white band of 

 long hair stretching across the forehead. The length 

 of its body is about eighteen inches, while its tail 

 is longer. It is found in Guinea and Fernando Po. 



The Blue-Faced The Blue-faced Guenon {Cercopith- 

 Guenon of ecus cephus), called Muido by the na- 

 VJest Africa, tives of Loango, is an inhabitant of 

 ■western Africa. He is of the same size as the Green 

 Monkey, but his coloring is more vivid and pleasing. 

 The back, upper part of the head and neck and the 

 outer sides of the limbs are of an olive-green tint, 

 here and there showing a golden gleam, while the 

 under surface of the body and the inner side of the 



BED, OR PAT AS MONKEY. Native of West Africa, and its color is mainly a delicate yellowish red and 



its face is decidedly humanlike. It has a mustache and full whiskers and Is a very pretty animal. Bruce, who 

 studied it in its wild state, declares that a troop of Red Monkeys watched, from their home in the trees, while his 

 boats were passing up the river, and that they finally became enraged and pelted the voyagers with bits of wood. 

 He adds that when fired at they uttered the most frightful cries but continued the fight, even after several of their 

 comrades were slain. ^Cercopithecus ruder.) 



limbs are bluish-gray. The face is of a beautiful 

 blue, showing a white spot on the upper lip, and en- 

 circled by a beard of flaming yellow, separated from 

 the olive hair on the head by a black stripe. The 

 tail is red from the tip nearly to its root. Robust, 

 healthy Monkeys of this tribe, without distinction 

 of sex, show this striking variety of color in as 

 perfect a manner as if they had been painted or 

 stained. 



They are plentifully found in Lower Guinea, and 

 south from Yumba to the Congo, and are more 

 numerous than any other species. Their favorite 

 haunts are the forests along the coast and deeper 

 in the continent in the damp forests of the moun- 

 tains. 



The Blue-Faced Pechuel-Loesche, who studied this 

 Guenon species, as well as a great many 



Domesticated, others bpth in the wild state and in 

 captivity, gives it as his opinion, that no other 



species of Guenon is so well fitted for domestication. 

 " One Guenon that we called by the native name foi 

 the whole species, Muido, a female, lived in my pos- 

 session for five years. She was very young when I 

 got her, and I took good care to keep her in perfect 

 health. In this Monkey I distinctly saw what an 

 effect experienced care and kind treatment, prac- 

 ticed from earliest youth, have on the Monkey 

 mind and how much ill-nature may be traced to 

 thoughtless teasing and rude jokes. One would have 

 much less cause for complaint of the malice and vio- 

 lence of Monkeys, if they were properly cared for 

 during their childhood. 



" Our Monkey, whose childhood had been care- 

 fully guarded from all pernicious influences, had the 

 freedom of the whole house in Europe. She roamed 

 through all rooms and went over tables and cup- 

 boards, but so cautiously that she never broke any- 

 thing. She climbed out of the windows, performed 

 gymnastics on the porch, ran over the whole roof, 

 and was free to go into the yard and the garden. 



She followed us like a dog 

 on our walks in the woods 

 and meadows, catching 

 Spiders, Butterflies and 

 Grasshoppers (her favorite 

 kinds of diet), and'romped 

 to her heart's content. Her 

 health was evidently much 

 benefited by it, and her con- 

 stitution became so hardy 

 that she could roll about in 

 freshly fallen snow without 

 catching cold. On our walks 

 she liked to invite atten- 

 tion to herself, and she had 

 her likes and dislikes. She 

 never harmed anybody, but 

 delighted to hide in hedges 

 at the approach of some un- 

 suspecting farmer, and then 

 suddenly appear and startle 

 him. She was fond of little 

 Dogs, but avoided large 

 ones ; yet, if they growled 

 at her, she fearlessly jumped 

 on their backs, boxed their 

 ears, and bit and scratched 

 to such good purpose that 

 they hurriedly made their 

 escape. She did not fear 

 Frogs or Lizards, neither 

 If she soiled her hands, she 

 tried to clean them, and if she did not succeed, came 

 to us with a human-like request to perform that 

 office for her. 



" The only thing we could not teach 

 her was to be clean about the 

 house. In everything else she was 

 obedient; she went to sleep in her basket, closed 

 the door of her cage herself, and even when too 

 noisy, would quiet down at a single 'hush!' from 

 us. She was fond of playing with dolls, balls, corks, 

 little pieces of wood, etc. For a long time, she 

 always took one little stick into her basket for the 

 night, putting others carefully away under cup- 

 boards, in the draperies, etc., and regarding- them 

 as her personal property, which nobody had any 

 right to touch. She used her roomy cheek-pouches 

 as a store-room for a great many trinkets. For 

 several little articles she showed a great predilection. 



did she torment them. 



Amusing Traits 



of the Blue- 

 Faced Guenon. 



