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are distinguished by the periodical recurrence of great 
tumor-like swellings, which make their appearance on 
the hinder quarters, more especially of the females at 
certain periods, associated with a remarkable activity 
of the capillary circulation in these parts and in 
the blood-vessels of the face, producing a bright crimson 
hue. This species has bred in the Gardens • and has also 
crossed with the common Macacus cynomolgus, the young 
possessing more the characters of the female parent (M. 
rhesus) than of the male, and, when females, exhibiting 
similar sexual swellings and flushings. 
This monkey is generally found near human habita¬ 
tions, as is frequently the case with the langur, doubtless 
from the circumstance that it finds an ample supply of 
food ready at hand in the fields, gardens and bazaars, 
and which it is permited to pilfer with comparative im¬ 
punity. Similar considerations lead it to attach itself 
also to temples, as for example, to the so-called Monkey 
Temple at Benares and numerous other shrines. This 
monkey manifests considerable intelligence, and is easily 
taught to mimic some of the ways of its superiors, and 
hence it is the species generally seen with the Nats, being 
led about with a goat, on which it is taught to bestride 
itself and go through certain manoeuvres, or it may be in 
the company of a bear, black or brown. 
M. cynomolgus , is distributed over the Malayan Penin¬ 
sula and the adjoining islands ; it occurs also in the delta 
of the Irawady, and ranges as far to the east as the island 
of Timor, under various slight modifications of external 
aspect. It is frequently seen in large troops on the 
mudflats all along the Burmese and Malayan coasts hunting 
for crabs, These mudflats of the estuaries are the abode 
