APES, MONKEYS, AND LEMURS 9 
southwest of Burma. This ape has a 
musical howl, which the whole flock utters 
in the early mornings on the tree-tops. In 
Northern India, in the hills beyond the 
Brahmaputra, lives another gibbon, the 
Hutocx. One of these kept in captivity 
soon learnt to eat properly at meals, and to 
drink out of a cup, instead of dipping his 
fingers in the tea and milk and then suck- 
ing them. The Sitvery Gisson kept at 
the Zoological Gardens was a most amiable 
pet, and had all the agility of the other 
gibbons. It is very seldom seen in this 
country, being a native of Java, where it is 
said to show the most astonishing activity 
among the tall cane-groves. One of the 
first ever brought to England belonged to 
the great Lord Clive. The AGILE Grppon 
is another and darker ape of this group. 
The list of the man-like ape closes 
with this group. All the gibbons are 
highly specialised for tree-climbing and an Psa [Notting Hill 
a seen ner . is undeniable — WHITE_HANDED GIBBON 
at, apart from the modifications necessary othe ; 
ise we Shy Ge he atonal length of This gibbon is found tn the forests of the Malay Archipelago 
the arms, the skeleton closely resembles that of the human being. In their habits, when wild, 
none of these apes show any remarkable degree of intelligence; but their living is gained in 
so simple a way, by plucking fruits and leaves, that there is nothing in their surroundings to 
stimulate thought. They do not need 
even to think of a time of famine or 
winter, or to lay up astock of food for 
such a season, because they live in the 
forests under the Equator. 
MONKEYS 
Tue Doc-sHAPED Monkeys 
AFTER the gibbons come a vast 
number of monkeys of every conceiv- 
able size, shape, and variety, which 
naturalists have arranged in consecutive 
order with fair success Until we reach 
the Baboons, and go on to the South 
American Monkeys and the Lemurs, it 
is not easy to give any idea of what 
these monkeys do or look like merely 
: by referring to their scientific groups. 
HULOCK GIBBON [Notting Hill The usual order of natural histories will 
here be followed, and the descriptions 
‘te great length of arm in comparison with the body and head should here be , 4 . d pt 
“ noted will, so far as possible, present the 
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