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to it. This Monkey is active, intelligent, and easily tamed. 

 The Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, and the Zoological Gardens of 

 London, possess several living specimens. 



Genus Marjot. — -A single species, the Magot (Fig. 256), composes 

 this genus. The fundamental distinctive character of the genus 

 Magot consists in the absence of a tail. 



ii^r. I'otj. — Ma^ots {Macaca^ liiuim). 



The Magot has been known for a very long time. The ancients 

 named it Pithecus (mdrjKo's) . Strabo and Aristotle have mentioned 

 it. It was from its skeleton that Galen, a celebrated physician 

 of Pergamos, and who flourished at Rome, a.d. 170, imder the 

 Emperor Marcus Aurelius, composed his anatomy of Man. At 

 that period, and indeed up to the fourteenth century of our era. 



