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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 
the body, and when perfect, which in captivity is not 
often the case, terminates in a brush of tufted hairs. 
The Society has at present two specimens of this 
Monkey. That which has remained for some months 
in Bruton Street is an extremely active and occasionally 
very troublesome, but at the same time a perfectly good 
tempered, fellow. His favourite exercise appears to 
consist in throwing himself together with his chain 
over the transverse bar which passes from pole to pole, 
and swinging himself backwards and forwards while 
thus suspended by his loins. When a party enters the 
room he usually descends his pole with rapidity, and 
watches a favourable opportunity for jumping upon 
some of them unawares and carrying off a hat or 
whatever else he may happen to seize, with which he 
instantly reascends his pole, and seats himself at the 
top, enjoying the success of his scheme. He is very 
strong, and were his teeth fully grown would in all pro- 
bability prove a dangerous animal; but he is still too 
young to be seriously mischievous. The individual at 
the Garden is a new comer, and is at present too 
closely confined to enable us to judge well of his dispo- 
sition and manners. 
