CHAPTER V. THE DOG-SHAPED MONKEYS--SEMNOPITHECUS--COLOBUS. General Characteristics of the Monkeys of the Old World--Distinguished from the Apes by Length of the Hinder Limbs and presence of Tails--Divided into those with and those without Cheek-pouches--Use of the Cheek-pouches--The two Genera of Pouchless Monkeys--THE SACRED MONKEYS, or Semnopitheci--Derivation of the Name--First Discovery--Ape Worship in India--General Description--Limited to Asia--THE SIMPAI--Its Locality and Appearance--THE BUDENG--Hunted for their Fur--Its Colour and Appearance--THE LONG-NOSED MONKEY--Reason of the Name--Quaint Appearance of the Young--Anatomical Peculiarities--Their First Appearance in Europe--Description of the Nose--Peculiar Formation of the Stomach--Bezoars--THE HOONUMAN MONKEY--The Sacred Monkey of the Hindoos--Legends about it--THE DOUC MONKEY--Its Appearance and Habitat--THE BLACK-LEGGED DOUC--Anatomical Peculiarities--THE CROWNED MONKEY--THE RED MONKEY--THE SUMATRA MONKEY--THE WHITE-BEARDED MONKEY--Found in Ceylon--Its Intelligence--THE GREAT WANDEROO--Other Ceylonese Monkeys--THE GENUS COLOBUS, or Thumbless Monkeys--Description of the Hand and Wrist--Different Varieties--COLOBUS VERUS--COLOBUS GUEREZA--Their Habitat and Peculiarities--Fossil Semnopitheci 84 CHAPTER VI. THE DOG-SHAPED MONKEYS (_continued_)--THE GUENONS. THE GUENONS--Where they are Found--Early Notices of them--Resemblance to the Colobi and Macaques--Distinctive Peculiarity of the Group--Often seen in Menageries--Their Terror of Snakes--Peculiar Expression of the Face--Beauty of their Skins--Minor Divisions of the Guenons--THE DIANA MONKEY--Origin of the Name--Anecdotes of their Mischief--THE MONA MONKEY--Description of one at Paris--THE WHITE-NOSED MONKEY--Origin of the Name--THE TALAPOIN--Anatomical Peculiarities--THE GREEN MONKEY--Found in Senegal in abundance--THE RED-BELLIED MONKEY--THE RED MONKEY--Observed by Bruce--THE MANGABEY--Singularity of its Appearance--Special Structural Peculiarities 103 CHAPTER VII. THE DOG-SHAPED MONKEYS (_continued_)--THE MACAQUES.