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named one becomes oily black, has a longer tail, and the hair on the head has a bushier appearance. 
But can these distinctions be accepted as showing a difference in the species h Probably not ; and it 
will be for the student to consider that Monkeys may have races and varieties which really pertain 
but to one species, and yet are separated by the naturalist. 
There are other short-tailed species of the Macaques, of which one, called the Handsome Monkey 
( Macacus speciosus), has a red face. It is from Japan, and is educated by the showmen there to do 
tricks like the Rhesus Monkey of India. 
Another kind is interesting, because it gives a hint how a tail may be gradually lost from being 
in the way. 
BELANGER’S MONKEY* 
This is found in Cochin-China, Singapore, Burmah, and up in the hills of Upper Burmah, Cochin, 
and Assam. 
Its tail is more than a stump, yet is not half a middle-sized one, as it does not come lower 
than the haunch-bones. The Monkey is much troubled with it. Sometimes it is stuck up erect, 
but usually it is curled inwards, as if the animal were ashamed of it, and had done something 
wrong. When this is the case, the end quarter of it is doubled up, and thus the space between the 
hauncli-bones is filled, as it were. The animal then sits on its tail and on its callosities, which are on 
the haunch-bones, and the consequence is that the surface of the tail, thus compressed, becomes hard 
and callous. Here, writes Dr. Anderson, the Indian zoologist, is an instance of a Monkey sitting 
on its tail ; and the habit appears to be peculiar to the species. The tail is very degenerated, so far as 
its bones are concerned, and the curvature of it appears to be caused by the animal desiring to curve 
it out of the way of pressure. Perhaps, according to Lord Monboddo, this is the first symptom of 
the loss of tail. With regard to the other peculiarities of this species, it may be mentioned that it has 
pretty eyes, and is exceedingly easily domesticated. 
THE PIG-TAILED M ACAQIJE . f— TIIE RRUH. 
This is a short, tliin-tailed kind, comes from Sumatra, Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula, and is 
called by the natives the Bruh — climber of the palms. Is is said to be used by the natives to collect 
cocoa-nuts, and is domesticated by them, being often found in their houses. 
THE MAGOT .J THE BARBARA 7 ' APE. THE TAIL-LESS APE. 
This is a very celebrated kind, and it has made its mark in the history of science and of the world. 
It was dissected by Galen ; it took part in the great siege of Gibraltar, and is one of the most popular of 
the companions of the organ-grinder. Moreover, as will be noticed further on, it is an animal which 
may be classified with the Cynocephali , or true Baboons, to be described in the next chapter, without 
doing much violence to science. 
It is called Magot by the French, and ir is the Pith ecus of that great old physician, Galen, who, 
when he could not learn anatomy by dissecting the human body, which was not allowed, investigated 
that of the Tail-less Ape. Born at Pergamo, about the year a.d. 131, Galen studied literature and 
then anatomy when young; and visiting Alexandria, was greatly delighted with being permitted to 
examine a human skeleton there, and subsequently to dissect a robber, who had remained without burial. 
Seeing that anatomy and physiology were the very foundations of medical practice, and noticing the 
resemblances of man and the Ape, he set to work and wrote largely on anatomy, but made the Ape his 
model. He was far before his age, and, therefore, abominable in. the eyes of the antiquated practitioners; 
so his career as a physician in Rome was short. Nevertheless, his voluminous works lasted longer 
than his critics, and influenced the rise of medical science and the comfort and lives of mankind for 
many centuries. His anatomy was wrong, because it was that of the Ape and not of man ; but, never- 
theless, so strongly were the medical anatomists — who never dissected but only read — impressed with 
the correctness of his so-called human anatomy, that when Vesalius did dissect men and describe then\ 
Macacus brunneus. 
t Macacus nemcstrinus. 
X Macacus sytvanns, or Inuus ccaudatus. 
