NATURAL HISTORY. 
FAGfi 
First Discovery— Ape Worship in India General Description— Limited to Asia— The Simpai — Its Locality and 
Appearance— The Budeng — Hunted for their Fur— Its Colour and Appearance— The Long-nosed Monkey — 
Reason of the Name- Quaint Appearance of the Young— Anatomical Peculiarities— Their First Appearance in 
Europe— Description of the Nose— Peculiar Formation of the Stomach Bezoars— The Hoonuman Monkey— The 
Sacred Monkey of the Hindoos Legends about it— The Done Monkey Its Appearance and Habitat— The 
Black-legged Doue— Anatomical Peculiarities— The Crowned Monkey The Red Monkey— The Sumatra 
Monkey The White-bearded Monkey — Found in Ceylon — Its Intelligence— The Great W an deroo— Other 
Ceylonese Monkeys— T he Genus Oolobus, or Thumbless Monkeys— Description of the Hand and Wrist— Dif- 
ferent Varieties— COLOBUS Verus— Oolobus Guereza— Their Habitat and Peculiarities— Fossil Semnopitheci . 84 
CHAPTER VI. 
THE DOG-SHAPED MONKEYS {continued ) — THE GUENONS. 
THE Guenons- Where they are Found Early Notices of them Resemblance to the Colobi ami Macaques- Distinctive 
Peculiarity of the Group— Often seen in Menageries Their Terror of Snakes Peculiar Expression of the Face- 
Beauty of tlieir Skins Minor Divisions of the Guenons The Diana Monkey -Origin of the Name— Anecdotes 
of their Mischief The Mona Monkey Description of one at Paris -The White-nosed Monkey- -Origin of tlie 
Name— The Talapoin— Anatomical Peculiarities— The Green Monkey -Found in Senegal in abundance— The 
Red-bellied Monkey — The Red Monkey Observed by Bruce— The Mangabey— Singularity of its Appearance 
— Special Structural Peculiarities 103 
CHAPTER VII. 
THE DOG-SHAPED MONKEYS ( continued ) — THE MACAQUES. 
Their Description and Anatomy, and its reference to that of the Semnopitheci and Guenons — T he Common Macaque— 
Its Character Appropriateness of the Name -Occasionally an Albino The Round-faced Macaque — Found in 
China- Ideas of the < 'hinese about them The Toque, or Bonnet Monkey -The Bhunder Described by Cuvier 
Their Thieving Propensities Hindoo Tales of their Sagacity The Moor Monkey— Belanger s Monkey — The 
Pn; tailed Macaque The Magot One of the Commonest Monkeys Described by Galen Early Notices of— 
Predatory Habits- Abundant at Gibraltar— Probably come over from Africa -Similarity to the Baboons— The 
Wanderoo — Account of one in the Zoological Society's Collection — Geographical Range of the Macaques , . 114 
CHAPTER VIII. 
tiie dog-sii aped monkeys ( continued ) — the baboons. 
Early Accounts of the Baboon— Origin of the Name— Held as Sacred by tlie Egyptians— Used as the Emblem of Tliotli— 
Brought into Europe in the Middle Ages —Their Literature — General Description of the lamily Structural 
Peculiarities -Brain -Skull Geographical Distribution— The Sacred Baboon Found in Great numbers in 
Abyssinia— Formidable Antagonists — Size and Colour of the Male and Female — Anecdotes - Propensity for 
Spirituous Liquors and Thieving —THE Gelada Baboon— The Pig -tailed Baboon— Usually called Cliacma— 
Description of it— Its Ferocity in Captivity Lb Vaillant’s Monkey— The Sphinx Baboon— Its Dexterity of Aim 
The Anubis Baboon Its Locality and Food— Method of Running -The Common Baboon— Often found in 
Captivity — Anecdotes— Anatomical Peculiarities ... 
CHAPTER IX. 
THE DOG-SHAPED monkeys ( concluded ) — THE BABOONS (2nd division) . 
The Second Division of the Baboons— The Mandrill— Easily distinguished from the rest— Peculiar Appearance and 
Colour of the Face— The Clieek-ridges -Noticed by the Ancients -Brutality of its Disposition — “ Jerry ” at the 
Surrey Gardens -Their Wild State— Anatomical Peculiarities — The Back-bone and Liver— The Drill — Distin- 
guished from the Mandrill - Probable Antiquity of these Baboons — Theories of their Relationship to other Animals — 
The Black Baboon— Its Locality and Description — Probably a Forest Ape — General Summary of the Dog-shaped 
Quadrumana and Classification of the Group 
CHAPTER X. 
THE MONKEYS OF THE NEW WORLD. 
THE CEBIDJE — THE HOWLERS — THE WOOLLY MONKEYS — THE SPIDER MONKEYS — THE SAJOUS. 
The Monkeys of the New World— How Distinguished from those of the Old— Their Division into Families —The First 
Family, The Cebid.e, with Prehensile Tails— The Howlers— Appropriateness of their Name— "Where Found- 
General Description— The Yellow-tailed Howler— Anatomical Peculiarities and Appearance of the Face— 
