THE SAVAGE WORLD. 
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The Gelada ( Cynocephalus geladd) is an Abyssinian creature whose singu¬ 
larly profuse hairy adornment distinguishes it above all the macaque species. 
Its prevailing color is brown, with lighter hue on the crown. Its manner of 
progression is on all fours, having a swaggering walk and moving in a gallop 
when running. When sitting it seems almost enveloped in a mantle of very 
long coarse hair and presents a rather forbidding appearance, notwithstanding 
its rather benign countenance. The mantle is confined to the neck and shoulder, 
the hind quarters and limbs being covered with short hair. In size it is equal 
to the chacma. 
The Tailed Apes ( Cercopitheci ) furnish most of the useful servants em¬ 
ployed by the itinerant organ-grinder, whose ubiquity seems unlimited, and whose 
apathy and narrowness of musical range are wearing upon any but children, 
who disregard the less intelligent man, in their enthusiastic interest in the 
appearance and antics of the monkey. 
The Green 
Monkey ( Cerco- 
pithecus sabceus) 
has hairs in which 
the colors black, 
yellow and blue 
alternate so fre¬ 
quently as to pro¬ 
duce the effect of 
green. It is liber¬ 
ally endowed in 
the matter of 
cheek-pouches, 
which it uses as 
larders for storing 
away food until it 
is needed for con¬ 
sumption. 
The better-fed 
American or Euro¬ 
pean traveller finds 
roast monkey a rather tasteless dish. The deep melancholy which the faces of 
monkeys always express, has rendered sportsmen disinclined to shoot an animal 
whose flesh they do not care for, and whose pleading eyes, pathetic looks and 
dying moans seem to them too human to be agreeable as a recollection. The 
natives, like their wild dogs, wolves, hyenas and jackals, are always hungry, 
and rudely thrust away all sentimentality when the question is one of appe¬ 
tite, and the green monkey accordingly serves them as a popular article of diet. 
The Variegated Monkey ( Cercopithecns mono) is sometimes imported, and 
manifests all the cunning and fondness for imitation which “is the badge of all 
his tribe.” It has the same habits and habitat as the green monkeys, but the 
green of its coat is varied by white, maroon and gray. 
The Red Monkey ( Cercopithecns ruber ) is larger, and the red, which is its 
prevailing color, becomes cream-colored on the legs. It belongs to the Senegal 
fauna. It is gregarious and combative, following the hunter by leaping from 
GREEN MONKEYS. 
