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NATURAL HISTORY. 
The last group of the Guenons are often called the Mangabeys, from a mistaken notion that they 
come from Madagascar. But there are no Monkeys in that great island, whose forests are peopled 
by Lemurs instead. 
THE MANGABEY, OR WHITE-EYELID MONKEY * 
The general colour of this Monkey is a, reddish-brown, which becomes decidedly red on the top of 
the head. There is a white band between the eyes, which is continued to each side of the back of the 
neck. A second kind has grey slaty-brown tints, without the white spot. 
One thing strikes the observer at once, and that is the very affected way in which the Monkey 
sits, with its eyelids half closed ; and as the upper ones are dead-white, they look almost like doll s 
eyelids, and as if they did not belong to it. 
They are extremely restless, and are fond of placing themselves in curious attitudes, and so 
full of antics are they that it has been erroneously imagined that they really have more joints and 
* Ccrcopithccus ctthiops. 
