THE ENTELLUS MONKEY. 
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agility settles down into a listless apathy ; and instead 
of resorting as before to the resources of their ingenuity 
for carrying any particular point, they have recourse to 
the brute force which they have acquired in its stead. 
At length they become as mischievous, and sometimes 
even as dangerous, as any of those Monkeys which in 
their young state oifer no such indications of good 
temper and intelligence. 
The Entellus is too distinct a species to be confounded 
with any other. It is of a uniform ashy-gray on the 
upper parts, becoming darker on the tail, which is 
grayish brown, of equal thickness throughout, and ter- 
minated by a few long hairs running out into a kind of 
point, but not forming a tuft. The under surface of the 
body is of a dingy yellowish white ; and the fore arms, 
hands, and feet are of a dusky black. The fingers of 
both extremities are very long, and the thumbs compa- 
ratively short. The face, which is black with somewhat 
of a violet tinge, is surmounted above the eyebrows by 
a line of long stiff black hairs, which project forwards 
and slightly upwards. On the sides of the cheeks and 
beneath the chin it is margined by a beard of grayish 
white passing along the line of the jaws and extending 
upwards in front of the ears, which are large and pro- 
minent, and of the same colour with the face. The 
hairs of the fore part of the head appear to diverge 
from a common centre. The height of our specimen, 
which was not yet adult, when in a sitting posture 
exceeded two feet ; and his tail, which he rarely dis- 
played at its full length, but more usually kept curled 
up in a single coil, measured nearly three. 
Both Thunberg and Wolf have given very particular 
and amusing accounts of the habits of these animals in 
their native country, where it appears that they are not 
uncommonly to be met with tame in the houses of the 
