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trees, and leaping from one to another. Serpents are 

 the moft deadly enemies of this and all the Monkey kind : 

 They follow them to the higheft branches of the trees, 

 and frequently furprife them whilft they are fleeping. 



The Chinese Bonnet MONKEY 



appears to be only a variety of the Malbrouck : The prin- 

 cipal difference confifts in its having the hair on its head 

 difpofed in the form of a flat bonnet, from which its 

 name has been derived- It inhabits the fame countrv, 

 and lives in the fame manner. 



When fruits and fucculent plants fail them, thefe ani- 

 mals are faid to eat infects, and fometimes watch by the 

 fea-fide for crabs and other ftiell-fifh, which they are very 

 dexterous in catching. 



They are never thoroughly tamed, and cannot be trad- 

 ed without a chain. — They do not breed when in a ftate 

 of confinement, even in their own country ; but require 

 to be at perfect freedom in their native woods. 



The MANGABY 



is diftinguiflied from all other Monkies by a very remark- 

 able character. Its eye-lids are naked, of a pure white 

 colour; and round each eye there is a prominent ring s 

 The hair on the head and body is of a yellowifh-browa 

 colour *, that on the belly white. Some of them have a 

 broad collar of white hair furrounding their neck and 

 face.— -They are natives of Madagascar. 



