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The Living Animals of the World 



The station, Saharanpur, was a kind of Indian Crewe, and the monkeys got into the engine- 

 sheds and workshops among the driving-wheels and bands. One got in the double roof of 

 an inspection-car, and thence stole mutton, corkscrews, cam}>glasses, and dusters. Among 

 many other interesting and correct monkey stories of Mr. Kipling's is the foUowinof : " The 

 chief confectioner of Simla had i)repared 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 mountain-side. It 

 is little use locking the do(.ir 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 hill-side 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 WiiiTE-BEARnED ^VA^'DEROO INIonkey 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 Nestor, 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 fliil 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-kosed JMonkeys, one of which (see figure on 



page 18) inhabits Eastern Tibet 

 and North-western China, and the 

 other the valley of the Mekong. 



The Guerezas and Guenons. 



Among tlie ordinary m^onkeys 

 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 tlie GuEXONS, 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- 

 grey 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. 

 It jumped on to her shoulder, 

 stared into her face, and then 



r/iolo bi/ A. S. Kudlaad <(; Sons. 



MALE HIMALAYAN LANCUK, 

 A king of tlie jungle, Dot often met with in caiitivity. 



