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MAMMALIA. 
[Chap. I. 
sinensis). These they devoured with unequivocal gusto ; 
they likewise relished the leaves of many other trees, 
and even the bark of a few of the more succulent ones. 
A hint might possibly be taken from this circumstance 
for improving the regimen of monkeys in menageries, 
by the occasional admixture of a few fresh leaves and 
flowers with their solid and substantial dietary. 
A white monkey, taken between Ambepusse and Kor- 
negalle, where they are said to be numerous, was 
brought to me to Colombo. Except in colour, it had 
all the characteristics of Presbytes cephalopt&rus. So 
striking was its whiteness that it might have been con- 
jectured to be an albino, but for the circumstance that 
its eyes and face were black. I have heard that white 
monkeys have been seen near the Eidi-galle Wihara in 
Seven Korles and also at Tangalle ; but I never saw 
another specimen. The natives say they are not un- 
common, and Knox that they are " milk-white both in 
body and face ; but of this sort there is not such 
plenty." 1 The Eev. E. Spence Haedt mentions, in his 
learned work on Eastern Monachism, that on the oc- 
casion of his visit to the great temple of Dambool, he 
encountered a troop of white monkeys on the rock in 
which it is situated — which were, doubtless, a variety 
of the Wanderoo. 2 Pliny was aware of the fact that 
white monkeys are occasionally found in India. 3 
When observed in their native wilds, a party of 
twenty or thirty of these creatures is generally busily 
engaged in the search for berries and buds. They 
are seldom to be seen on the ground, except when 
1 Knox, pt. i. e. vi. p. 25. 
2 Eastern Monachism, c. xix. p. 204. 
8 Pliny, Nat. Hist. 1. riii. c. xxxii. 
