THE MACAQUES. 
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The Macaques have their ears rather pointed at the tip, and not rounded, and the general shape 
of their bodies is not lanky like that of the active long-legged Guenons and Semnopitheci. They are 
less gracefully made, and the dog-like appearance, so palpable in the Baboon, is recognised in their 
fore parts and head. Moreover, the colours are not usually pretty and variegated, as in many of the 
kinds of the genera already described, but are dun and sad in tint. Their tail varies according to the 
species in length, and a rough method of classification may be made which divides them into those 
with long, those with moderate, and those with short and almost no tails. 
The large Common Macaque (J/. cynomolyus ), and the Bound-faced, or Formosan Monkeys 
{M. cyclopis), and the Bonnet Monkey, represent the long-tailed kinds; the Bhunder (J/. rhesus ), 
has a tail of middle length ; and the short-tailed group about to be mentioned consists of the Moor, 
TI1E TOQUE. 
the Pig-tailed, and the Belanger Monkey. The tail-less one includes the Magot. Finally, the Silenus 
Ape, usually miscalled Wanderoo, is so baboonish that, although it has a long tail, it cannot be placed 
with the Common Macaque in the beginning of the chapter, but must come at the end, so as to 
lead to the true Dog-headed Apes, or Baboons, which will be described further on. 
If the remarks in page 106 about the fourth division of the Cercopitheci are now read carefully, 
it will be understood how these Monkeys, the Macaques and the Baboons, form a group of creatures 
which is only really separable into kinds or species, but that the genera are very artificial. 
THE COMMON MACAQUE.* 
The so-called Common Macaque, or Macacus cynomolgus , represents the long-tailed section of the 
genus, and grows to be a powerful animal amongst the other small Monkeys, over a very wide extent 
of country. It lives in Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Batchian, in the islands fr om Lumbok to 
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Macacus cynomolgus. 
