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caught by the simple device of ' placing food under a basket propped 

 up by a stick with a string attached — much like the familiar sieve-trap 

 for sparrows. 



The species, being a hardy and omnivorous one, bears captivity well, 

 and will winter out-of-doors in England ; it has also bred here as well 

 as in captivity in its own country. Old females often get very obese, 

 and they seem long-lived ; I have known cases of specimens over fifteen 

 years old in India, and they seemed still healthy. One of these was 

 a very fine male of the yellow variety; for now and then individuals 

 of this species are found j of a golden-buff tint, with very fair skin on 

 the face and paws— monkey blondes in fact. It would be interest- 

 ing to isolate pairs of these, and see if the colour proved to be 

 hereditary. c 



The group of Macaque Monkeys, of which this ; animal is a good 

 typical example, is purely Asiatic, except for the tailless Barbary Ape 

 (Macacus inuus), which is found in North Africa; to this species the 

 well-known monkeys on Gibraltar belong. It was by dissecting this 

 monkey that the ancient Greek doctors acquired the knowledge of 

 anatomy which they applied to the human subject. 



There are nearly a score of these Macaque Monkeys, as far as is 

 known very similar in voice and habits, and not showing much differ- 

 ence in size, though they vary most remarkably in the matter of tail. 

 They all seem also to bear captivity well, and hence the common ones 

 are very familiar, not only the Bunder, but the above-mentioned Bonnet 

 Monkey and the Crab-eating Macaque {Macacus cynomolgus) being 

 freely imported. 



This last is a short-limbed and long-tailed species, typically much 

 darker in colour than the Bunder, with the ears and paws black. Its 

 swollen muzzle gives it a decidedly brutal appearance, and it is a coarse, 

 hardy animal, with a decided appetite for animal food. Ranging from 

 Burma through the East Indies even to Timor, it frequents estuarine 

 forests and mangrove swamps, coming down into the tidal mud to catch 

 shrimps and crabs. The ways of the old females with their young are 

 said to be very amusing, the vagrant propensities of the youthful 



