ORDER OE QUADRUMANA. 
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submissive, and delights in the society of Man and domestic 
animals. 
Genus Macaque properly so-called . — Certain anatomical details 
connected with dentition and the form of the orbit, separate the 
Macaques (or Macacus) from the Magots ; but what most markedly 
characterises the Macaques is the invariable addition of a tail, 
Fig. 257- — Rhesus ( Macacus rhesus ). 
which is of variable dimensions, according to the species. When 
it is long, it is always pendent, never being elevated, as in the 
other genera. 
The Macaques are divided into long or medium, and very short- 
tailed species. Among the first the most remarkable are — 
Buffon’s Macacus, the Macacus of the Philippines, the Rhesus 
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