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they scent the dew ascending to form rain, they then suspend themselves by means of their tails to fill 
their nostrils with it, or else by both feet. The Gaou are said to inhabit the Lunseen hills, to be 
like an Ape with long arms, and to be good for killing. When their arms are cut through at the thick 
part, they can be made into flutes rounder than reeds. They are of the Monkey tribe, having long 
legs, and are good whistlers, and given to drag tilings about. The Yew are like the common Monkey, 
with green body and dark paws ; they have black whiskers and black paws. They are naturally very 
fond of their whiskers, and doat on their species, living and dying together ; on which account, if one 
can be got at, a hundred will be killed. Men shoot them with poisoned arrows ; the shot animal’s 
companions draw out the arrow in order to wound themselves and die with one another. 
These round-faced Monkeys have, of course, callosities on the buttocks, and these at certain times 
become gorged with blood, so as to swell out and become greatly distended, being horrible to look at. 
They resemble the common Rhesus Monkey, about to be described, in many points, and indeed 
the skulls present so many things in common that no satisfactory distinction can be made ; but the 
bones of the pelvis, which are much curved, and the shorter limb-bones of the round-faced species, are 
distinctive. 
The fur of this Monkey is thick and woolly, and is very slate-coloured. The tail is about a foot 
in length, is hairy, and has a black line along the top. The head is round, the ears are small and 
feathered, and the face is flat. The forehead is naked and the cheeks are dark-whiskered, and there is 
a strong ruffle-like beard. 
THE BONNET MONKEY.* 
This is a very common Monkey in menageries and zoological gardens, and is always an object of 
attention, as it is amusing, very active, full of tricks and malice, and a great stower away of nuts in 
its cheek-pouches. It is known amongst the other Macaques by its cap of long hair radiating from 
the crown, on which it rests flat, but it is often parted dow r n the middle. It has a long tail, rather a 
long muzzle, and prominent ridges over the eyes, and the forehead is flat. Its fur is olive-grey, and 
sometimes greenish or brown in tint, whilst the under surface is asliy-wdiite. It has large and often 
flesh-coloured ears. 
The young often have their head of hail* parted down the middle, and, as their face and forehead 
are pale and not hairy, they have a very human appearance. 
Very good-tempered when pleased, this Macaque enjoys a bit of mischief, and if it can steal 
anything from a visitor it is intensely delighted. But when food is offered and then not given, the 
Bonnet Monkey shows that it considers itself wronged, and scolds and screams in a great rage. It 
has much capacity for accepting and stowing away food, and there are often fierce fights if one intrudes 
upon the store of another. Very fond of hugging and nursing others, it is equally delighted in 
searching the bodies of its companions for insect life ; but, although thus amiable, it resents unkindness 
very decidedly and at once. 
Another common Macaque is called the Toque, but it only differs from the Bomiet in the parting 
of its hair. 
THE BHUNDER, OR RHESUS MONKEY. f 
This is a Monkey with a medium-sized tail, which is well known to those Europeans who have 
lived in out-of-the-way places in British India. 
It is a strong-looking creature when full grown, and has powerful shoulders and limbs ; the tail is 
about one-third of the length of the body, which often attains the length of from one foot and a-half 
to two feet. The prevailing colour of the hair is olive-green and brown on the back, and the naked 
face is of a pale flesli-colour. There is no ruff of hair around the neck, and the ears are very visible, 
and there is a singular looseness or folding of the skin of the throat and belly. The callosities are 
often veiy red, and the insides of the legs also. 
F. Cuvier observed the early days of one born in France, and noticed that immediately after birth 
it clung fast to its mother’s stomach, holding on with its fore hands stuck in her fur, and that it did 
not quit the breast, even during its sleep, for fifteen days. In the first day of its existence it appeared 
to distinguish things, and to look at them carefully, and the mother was devoted to it, giving it the 
# Macacus radiatus. 
f Macacus rhesus. 
