8 MAMMALIA. [Cuare. I. 
sinensis). Thesethey devoured with unequivocal gusto ; 
they likewise relished the leaves of many other trees, 
and even the bark of a few of the more succulent ones. 
A hint might possibly be taken from this circumstance 
for improving the regimen of monkeys in menageries, 
by the occasional admixture of a few fresh leaves and 
flowers with their solid and substantial dietary. 
A white monkey, taken between Ambepusse and Kor- 
negalle, where they are said to be numerous, was 
brought to me to Colombo. Except in colour, it had 
all the characteristics of Presbytes cephalopterus. So 
striking was its whiteness that it might have been con- 
jectured to be an albino, but for the circumstance that 
its eyes and face were black. I have heard that white 
monkeys have been seen near the Ridi-galle Wihara in 
Seven Korles and also at Tangalle; but I never saw 
another specimen. The natives say they are not un- 
common, and Knox that they are “milk-white both in 
body and face; but of this sort there is not such 
plenty.”!_ The Rev. R. Spence Harpy mentions, in his 
learned work on Eastern Monachism, that on the oc- 
casion of his visit to the great temple of Dambool, he 
encountered a troop of white monkeys on the rock in 
which it is situated — which were, doubtless, a variety 
of the Wanderoo.? Pxiny was aware of the fact that 
white monkeys are occasionally found in India.? 
When observed in their native wilds, a party of 
twenty or thirty of these creatures is generally busily 
engaged in the search for berries and buds. They 
are seldom to be seen on the ground, except when 
1 Kwox, pt. i. c. vi. p. 25. 
2 Eastern Monachism, c. xix. p. 204. 
3 Puy, Nat. Hist. 1. viii. c. xxxii. 
