28 WILD BEASTS OF THE WORLD 



monkey being restrained by a jerk of the tail and a cuff on the head, 

 followed by maternal cuddling to appease his fractious shrieks. 



In the case of a little Japanese monkey recently reared at the Zoo, 

 one could often see him hauled away from the public or the interested 

 occupants of the next cage in this way, but his mother never seemed 

 to think it necessary to correct him. This species {Macacus speciosus) 

 is, by the way, interesting as the most northerly in its range of all 

 monkeys. It has a stump tail and thick greyish fur, set off by a 

 brilliantly red face, brightest in the female. 



The most remarkable-looking of the Macaques is the so-called 

 Wanderoo — this name really belonging to a Ceylonese Lungoor — or 

 Lion-tailed Monkey {Macacus silenus). This animal, which comes from 

 Southern India, is black all over, with a rather short tail tufted at the 

 end, and a full ruff of grey hair round its black face. The young one 

 has no ruff, and its face is like fair human skin, so that the contrast 

 between the infant, so like a tiny wizened child, and its black-faced 

 whiskered mother is more than ordinarily comic. It is not a common 

 species, but one that always attracts attention by its appearance, and so 

 has long been well known in captivity. 



