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instead of resorting as before to the resources of their ingenuity for carrying any 
particular point, they have recourse to the brute force which they have acquired 
in its stead. At length they become as mischievous, and sometimes even as 
dangerous, as any ef those Monkeys which in their young state offer no such in- 
dications of good temper and intelligence. 
The Entellus is too distinct a species to be confounded with any other. It is 
ef a uniform ashy-gray on the upper parts, becoming darker on the tail, which is 
grayish brown, of equal thickness throughout, and terminated by a few long 
hairs running out into a kind of point, but not forming a tuft. The under sur- 
face of the body is of a dingy yellowish white ; and the fere arms, hands, and 
feet are of a dusky black. The fingers of both extremities are very long, and 
the thumbs comparatively short. The face, which is black, with somewhat of a 
violet tinge, is surmounted above the eyebrows by a line of long stiff black hairs, 
which project forwards and slightly upwards. On the sides of the cheeks and 
beneath the chin it is margined by a beard of grayish white passing along the 
line of the jaws, and extending upwards in front of the ears, which are large and 
prominent, and of the same colour with the face. The hairs of the fore part ef 
the head appear to diverge from a commen centree The height of our specimen, 
which was not yet adult, when in a sitting posture exceeded two feet ; and his 
tail, which he rarely displayed at its full length, but more usually kept curled up 
in a single coil, measured nearly three. 
Both Thunberg and Wolf have given very particular and amusing accounts of 
the habits of these animals in their native country, where it appears that they 
are not uncommonly to be met with tame in the houses of the inhabitants, in 
which they are also, even in their wild state, if not welcome, at least frequent 
visitors. The details furnished by the latter author are, however, too manifestly 
apocryphal to be received as authentic in the present state of science. It seems 
nevertheless certain that such is the respect in which they are held by the natives, 
that whatever ravages they may commit, the latter dare not venture to destroy 
them, and only endeavour to scare them away by their cries. HEmboldened by 
this impunity, the Monkeys come down from the woods in large herds, and take 
possession of the produce of the husbandman’s toil, with as little ceremony as 
though it had been collected for their use ; for, with a degree of taste which does 
them credit, they prefer the cultivated fruits of the orchard to the wild ones of 
their native forests. Figs, cocoa-nuts, apples, pears, and even cabbages and po- 
tatoes form their favourite spoil. The numbers in which they assemble render it 
impossible for the sufferer to drive them away without some more efficient means 
than he is willing to employ: he is consequently compelled to remain a quict 
spectator of the devastation, and to submit without repining to his fate. 
These Monkeys appear to be peculiarly susceptible of change of climate. M. 
Thunberg’s specimen died of cold even in the temperate latitude of the Cape ; 
and neither the Paris specimen nor our own long survived their arrival in 
Europe.— The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society, No. 1V. 
New Species of Wild Swan. Extract from a letter to Capt. THOMAS 
Brown, F.R.S.E. &c.—“. By the dissection of aSwanin ourmuseum, (Messrs. 
John and Albany Hancock’s,) and of another now in the museum of this town, 
Mr. R. R. Wingate has been enabled to point out sufficient distinctive charac- 
ters to establish an entire new species of Wild Swan. Mr. Selby of Twizel 
House is going to write a paper upon the subject, which will be shorily read at 
the Natural History Society of Newcastle. 
“* The chief distinctions consist in the formation of the trachea, having a slight 
difference in the external appearance, and being of a smaller size. It is intended 
to be named Anas Cygneus Bewickii, after our distinguished townsman.”’ 
Additions to the British Flora.—We are informed that Reseda alba has been 
discovered by the Rev. Mr. Tozer, between Marazion and Penzance, in Cornwall. 
We believe also that Myosotis collina has not been made known as a British 
