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is a thick-set, powerful animal with long much annulatcd 
hair on the shoulders. The males are usually fierce, but this 
monkey winch has been in captivity for sometime has been 
trained to salaam, when he is told to do so. The females 
are docile, and one which was sent to the London Zoological 
Gardens as the Andaman monkey, was taught to smoke a 
pipe and perform a number of antics. There are, however, no 
monkeys in the Andaman islands, and the foregoing female, 
it was afterwards ascertained, had been taken to the 
Andamans from Burma. It is generally found in rocky 
places in Arakan, and along the banks of the Irawadi. 
Immediately beyond these cages is a miniature 
Thatched Cottage 
which contains the last of the deer represented in these 
Gardens, and the smallest of their tribe, viz., the Mouse-deer, 
Chevrotains, or Tragulidce , which are not provided with 
horns. These animals are very delicate in confinement 
and require the utmost care. It is a curious fact, that 
although they are abundant in the moist region of the 
Malayan Peninsula, it has been found here by experience, 
that if they are exposed at all to damp, they become 
paralysed in their hind-quarters, and eventually die. They 
generally frequent forests in which the undergrowth is 
moderately dense, and they are most frequently to be seen 
running about just after sun-down, and in some districts, 
such as the Province of Tenasserim, they are almost as 
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abundant as rabbits, but do not appear to be gregarious. 
The species represented here is the animal known as 
Meminna indica , which is not’ much larger than a hare* 
and is found in Central and Southern India, and Ceylon. 
It is of a brown colour, with large palish spots tending to 
