ASIATIC FAPKS: 
a difficult part ofatree. The beard of the Diana monkey 
is not a mark of sex. It is an adornment of the female 
as well as of the male. It is stated that the monkey 
is apparently proud and careful of the well-being of this 
ornament. When drinking it will carefully hold it 
aside. This black-faced West African monkey is one 
of the species with which the Zoo is sure to be furnished. 
The visitor will also find many of the remaining forty 
or so species of Cercopithecus. 
THE LANGUR OR HANUMAN 
The Holy Apes, genus Semnopithecus, to one species 
of which, S. entellus, the name Hanuman is applied, 
are collectively known as Langurs, and inhabit the 
East, including the continent of India. They differ 
from the macaques of the same region and from the 
Cercocebi and Cercopitheci of Africa in having no cheek 
pouches in which to store superfluous food for sub- 
sequent mastication; they always have a long tail, 
which the macaques, as has been remarked, do not 
always possess, and they have a large and complex 
stomach instead of the small and human-like stomach 
of the macaques and their allies of Africa. They attain 
also to a fair size, and a species of Rhinopithecus (hardly 
distinguished in reality from Semnopithecus, except by 
its nose) is the largest existing monkey after the great 
Anthropoids. The name Holy Ape implies the fact that 
many of these monkeys are reverenced by the native, 
and thus enjoy immunity from persecution ; this freedom 
from interference leads them to such lengths that the 
species which we are considering here more especially, 
the Indian Hanuman, visits and pilfers from shops 
with impunity and takes open exercise upon the roofs 
of houses. Like so many apes, the Hanuman is sociable, 
and moves about in clans, which occasionally meet other 
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