THE MANGABEY. 
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muscles than the most agile of their allies. They are fond of carrying their tails reversed, so as to he 
on a line parallel with the top of the back, and their common expression of disgust is to show their 
teeth by raising the upper lip. It is always droll, frolicsome, and good-natured. Sir William Jardine 
THE MANGABEY. 
mentions a female in Mr. Womb well’s Menagerie that was most lively, and Broderip says: — “ She 
performed many of the attitudes of the most experienced harlequins, and was remarkably cleanly and 
careful not to soil her person. When feeding, she seldom put her head to the food or dish, but lifted 
and conveyed it to her mouth. She was very fond of bread, milk, and vegetables, and of carrots 
especially.” He gives a figure of her — no easy task, for 
she was never at rest for one moment, and her celerity 
was increased when she perceived she was noticed. 
The Mangabeys are all African, and are pecu- 
liarised by having a fifth cusp, or point, to the last 
crushing tooth on either side of the lower jaw, as in 
Semnopithecus. Now, they have no other resemblance 
to Semnopithecus, and all their structural peculiarities 
are those of the Guenons. They have, however, the web 
between the fingers carried as far forward as the first 
joint, and the hair comes close to the knuckles and the 
beginning of the short thumb. In the foot the toe-thumb 
is large, and, as usual, widely separate from the toes, the 
second and third of which are united by a web, which 
reaches almost to the last joint near the tips, and the third, fourth, and fifth are united by smaller webs. 
Evidently the peculiar crushing teeth of the Mangabey are a relic of an ancestral character, and we 
must look in some lower tribes for a corresponding arrangement, and in this we are assisted by the 
nature of the face, for the muzzle is rather projecting. In fact, they somewhat resemble the Macaques, 
or Inui, which will be considered next. 
It is extremely interesting to find in Africa, and in the same parts of it, Monkeys living in the 
same forests, on the same kind of food, and exposed to the same climate and dangers, differing so 
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