ChYLON MONKEYS. 
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THE P RI AML'S MONKEY. (After Tennent.) 
branch to branch, using their powerful arms alternately, and when baffled by distance, flinging 
themselves obliquely so as to catch the lower boughs of an opposite tree, the momentum acquired by 
their descent being sufficient to cause a rebound, tliat sends then again upwards, till they can grasp a 
higher branch, and thus continue their headlong flight.” 
This Monkey is very active and intelligent, and is not very mischievous, and, indeed, is much 
less so than the other Monkeys of Ceylon. In captivity it is remarkable for the gravity of its 
behaviour, and for an air of melancholy in its expression and movements, which is completely in character 
THE CEYLON LOW-COUNTRY WANDEROO— THE WH ITE-BE AILDED MONKEY * 
“ When observed in their native wilds,” writes Sir James Emerson Tennent, “ a party of twenty 
or thirty of these creatures are generally busily engaged in the search for berries and buds. They are 
seldom to be seen on the ground, and then only when they have descended to recover seeds or fruit that 
have fallen at the foot of their favourite trees. In their alarm, when disturbed, their leaps are pro- 
digious, but generally speaking their progress is made not so much by leaping as by swinging from 
# Semnopithccus Nestor. 
