Chap. I.] MONKEYS. 5 
cently by Professor Schmarda, of the University of 
Prague. From the united labours of these gentlemen 
and others interested in the same pursuits, we may 
hope at an early day to obtain such a knowledge of the 
zoology of Ceylon as will to some extent compensate 
for the long indifference of the government officers. 
I. Quadrumana. 1. Monkey 8. — To a stranger in the 
tropics, among the most attractive creatures in the 
forests are the troops of monkeys that career in cease- 
less chase among the loftiest trees. In Ceylon there 
are five species, four of which belong to one group, the 
Wanderoos, and the other is the little graceful grimacing 
rilawa l , which is the universal pet and favourite of 
both natives and Europeans. The Tamil conjurors teach 
it to dance, and in their wanderings carry it from village 
to village, clad in a grotesque dress, to exhibit its lively 
performances. It does not object to smoke tobacco. 
The Wanderoo is too grave and melancholy to be trained 
to these drolleries. 
Knox, in his captivating account of the island, gives 
an accurate description of both ; the Rilawas, with " no 
beards, white faces, and long hair on the top of their 
heads, which parteth and hangeth down like a man's, 
and which do a deal of mischief to the corn, and are so 
impudent that they will come into their gardens and eat 
such fruit as grows there. And the Wanderoos, some 
1 Macacus pileatus, Shaw and radiating from the crown of the 
Desmarest, The "bonneted Ma- head. A spectacled monkey is 
caque"_is common in the south and said to inhabit the low country 
west ; it is replaced on the neigh- near to Bintenne ; but I have never 
bouring coast of the Peninsula of seen one brought thence. A paper 
India by the Toque, M. radiatus, by Dr. Templeton, in the Mag. 
which closely resembles it in size, Nat. Hist. n. s. xiv. p. 361, contains 
habit, and form, and in the peculiar some interesting facts relative to 
appearance occasioned by the hairs the Rilawa of Ceylon. 
