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TYPES OF ANIMAL LIFE 



species was found by Father David at Moupin in Thibet. 

 Including the Barbary apes, this group may be said to 

 be most widely spread of all those which compose the 

 monkey order, extending in one direction from Gibraltar 

 and northern China, down to the island of Timor and 



Fig. 5. 



THE BLACK MACAQUE. 



the Cape of Good Hope, and in another direction from 

 north-western Africa to Batavia, Japan, and the Philip- 

 pine Islands in the east. In ancient times this genus 

 extended into France, and even to England. One Indian 

 species, called the wanderoo (Fig. 4), has the face encircled 

 by very long hairs, which gives the ape a very conspicuous 

 and characteristic appearance. It is also somewhat 



