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At least, in captivity, this species is said to be characterised by the unusual 
habit of keeping its long tail turned forwards over the body. In confinement this 
mangabey is docile and good-tempered, and more amenable to instruction than is 
the case with the majority of the larger guenons. A specimen, which lived more 
than fifty years ago in the Zoological Society’s Gardens, was said to be a most 
importunate beggar; “but instead of snatching the contributions of his visitors 
with violence or anger, like the generality of monkeys, he solicited them by 
tumbling, dancing, and a hundred other amusing tricks. He was very fond of 
being caressed, and would examine the hands of his friends with great gentleness 
and gravity, trying to pick out the little hairs, and all the while expressing his 
satisfaction by smacking his lips, and uttering a low surprised grunt.” 
The white-collared mangabey ( C. ’ collaris) may be easily distinguished from 
the sooty mangabey by its blackish-grey colour, the white round the neck, and the 
bay on the crown of the head; the white of the collar extending on to the cheeks, 
throat, and chest. 
The third representative of this group is the white-crowned mangabey, which 
takes its name from a characteristic white spot on the crown, and is also dis¬ 
tinguished by a white streak running down the middle of the back. 
The Grey-Cheeked Mangabey (Cercocebus albigena). 
The circumstance that the hair of the crown of the head is lengthened so as 
to form a distinct crest affords a ready means of distinguishing the grey-cheeked 
mangabey from its three congeners. The general colour of this monkey is blackish, 
but its name comes from the greyish hairs on the sides of the throat and cheeks, 
It was first made known to science in 1850 by the late Dr. Gray, from specimens 
sent home from the West Coast of Africa by Du Chaillu, previously to his great 
expedition of 1855. 
The Macaques. 
Genus Macacus. 
After having devoted so much space to the monkeys of Africa, we turn 
to those Asiatic species known as Macaques, of which a group is represented in 
our coloured Plate. 
We have already seen the curious origin of the term mangabey, applied to 
the group of African monkeys last mentioned, and it appears from what we have 
to say immediately that there is a kind of fatality in regard to the misapplication 
of names among monkeys. So far as can be learnt, the name Macao or Macaque 
seems to be a barbarous word which, in Margrave’s Natural History of Brazil, 
published in the year 1648, is given as the native name of a monkey from the 
Congo and Guinea. Buffon, however, with a facility for misappropriation for 
which he was rather celebrated, transferred this name to the Indian group forming 
this part of our subject, and to them it has ever afterwards clung, having been 
Latinised into Macacus. In spite of its origin, the name is good enough, and so 
must remain. 
