FOOD OF VAEIOUS ANIMALS AND BIRDS. 
MONKEYS. 
In feeding the various kinds of monkeys it will be 
found that the more varied the food, and the more often 
changed, the better they thrive. Many of the Old World 
monkeys live much on fruit, leaves, tender branches, and 
buds of flowers. The ourang, chimpanzee, Hylohates, 
gibbons, Semnopitliecus, and Colohus group are less insect- 
ivorous and carnivorous than most of the others. 
Most of these will, especially during the winter, improve 
by the addition to their food of a little animal substance. 
I have found the following mode of feeding answer 
admirably for a large number of the common species : — 
Mix boiled rice, pea-flour, scalded bread, boiled carrot 
and potatoes, a little sugar, and some raw or boiled meat 
ground fine in a sausage-machine. Mix the above into a 
stiff pudding, break off' in lumps as big as walnuts, and 
let each monkey be fed two or three times a day. Give 
them bread-and-milk now and then for a change ; nuts, 
biscuit, dry bread, wheat, peas dry ; Indian corn, dry or 
boiled, fruit ; green leaves of many different kinds. 
Always take care that the fruit and green food be fresh 
and good. See also that the animals are not relaxed by 
the food being too moist. 
The New World monkeys feed more upon insects and 
small animals. Many of them are excessively fond of 
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