12 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 
car, and thence stole mutton, corkscrews, camp-glasses, and dusters. Among many other inter- 
esting and correct monkey stories of Mr. Kipling’s is the following: « The chief confectioner of 
Simla had prepared a most splendid bride-cake, which was safely put by in a locked room, that, 
like most back rooms in Simla, looked out on the mountainside. It is little use locking the 
door when the window is left open. When they came to fetch the bride-cake, the last piece of 
it was being handed out of the window by a chain of monkeys, who whitened the hillside with 
its fragments.” : 
From India to Ceylon is no great way, yet in the latter island different monkeys are found. 
The two best known are the WHITE-BEARDED WANDEROO Monkey and the’ Great WANDEROO. 
Both are grave, well-behaved monkeys. The former has white whiskers and a white beard, and 
looks so wise he is called in Latin Westor, after the ancient counsellor of the Greeks. Nice, clean 
little monkeys are these, and pretty pets.. The great wanderoo is rarer. It lives in the hills. 
“ A flock of them,” says Mr. Dallas, “ will take possession of a palm-grove, and so well can they 
conceal themselves in the leaves that the whole party become invisible. The presence of a dog 
excites their irresistible curiosity, and in order to watch his movements they never fail to betray 
themselves. They may be seen congregated on the roof of a native hut. Some years ago the 
child of a European clergyman, having been left on the ground by a nurse, was bitten and teased 
to death by them. These monkeys have only one wife.” Near relatives of the langurs are the 
two species of SNuB-Nos—ED Monkeys, one of which (see figure on page 18) inhabits Eastern Tibet 
and Northwestern China, and the other the valley of the Mekong. 
THE GUEREZAS AND GUENONS 
Among the ordinary monkeys 
of the Old World are some with 
very striking hair and colours. 
The GuEREzA of Abyssinia has 
bright white and black fur, with 
long white fringes on the sides. 
This is the black-and-white skin 
fastened by the Abyssinians to 
their shields, and, if we are not 
wrong, by the Kaffirs also. 
Among the GueEnons, a large 
tribe of monkeys living in the 
African forests, many of which 
find their way here as. “ organ 
monkeys,” is the Diana, a most 
beautiful creature, living on the 
Guinea Coast. It has a white 
crescent on its forehead, bluish- 
gray fur, a white beard, and a 
patch of brilliant chestnut on 
the back, the belly white and 
orange. A lady, Mrs. Bowditch, 
gives the following account of 
a Diana monkey on board ship. 
pf It jumped on to her shoulder, 
Pia bn # eindlagd oF ins stared into her face, and then 
MALE HIMALAYAN LANGUR made friends, seated itself on her 
4 king of the jungle, not often met with in captivity knees, and carefully examined her 
