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thicker in front of the ears, which are long and prominent and black. Finally, this face has a few 
hairs by way of a beard beneath the chin, which projects. 
A long-legged, active creature is the Entellus. It associates in great troops, and they keep up a 
constant noise and quarrel. Those that abound — thanks to the belief in their semi-divinity by the 
Hindoos — near towns and plantations are certainly more, sharp, clever, and impudent than their less 
fortunate fellows. They watch and steal with impunity and ability, and are amusing when young, but 
savage and disagreeable when old. The young differ much in shape from the old adults, and their 
limbs seem very disproportioned at first. They have a staid look about them, and a tranquil eye, and 
the forehead is broad and high, the muzzle only slightly prominent, and the brain-case large. But 
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with age this alters ; the tints of the body get darker, the body larger, the muzzle elongates, and the 
forehead appears to contract, and to be no longer an object of human resemblance. The disposition 
changes also, for the tame and amusing young learn a number of tricks and are full of fun ; but this 
is succeeded by a look and behaviour of distrust and fierceness. 
The Entellus Monkey is not found from Cape Comorin to the Himalayan Mountains, as is usually 
asserted ; and Captain Hutton has shown that it is “entirely and absolutely restricted, within narrow 
limits, to the hot tropical plains of the north-western Gangetic provinces, where, from the degree of 
protection which its imputed ‘odour of sanctity ’ is so well calculated to cast around it, as well as from 
the numbers in which it frequently occurs, it becomes a perfect nuisance in those parts of the country 
where the superstitious veneration for it most strongly prevails. In many places where the natives, 
from religious motives, are in the habit of feeding and protecting them, the roofs of the village huts are 
at certain hours of the day literally crowded with them, and the depredations committed in grain 
shops, gardens, and among neighbouring crops, are most m iscr eant-1 ike. ” The Entellus has been 
purposely introduced elsewhere, hut is naturally confined to the right banks of the Ganges and 
Hooghly. They will not cross water of their own accord, and there appears to be a notion in the minds 
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