Their Description and Anatomy, and its reference to that
of the Semnopitheci and Guenons--THE COMMON MACAQUE--Its
Character--Appropriateness of the Name--Occasionally an
Albino--THE ROUND-FACED MACAQUE--Found in China--Ideas
of the Chinese about them--THE TOQUE, OR BONNET
MONKEY--THE BHUNDER--Described by Cuvier--Their Thieving
Propensities--Hindoo Tales of their Sagacity--THE MOOR
MONKEY--BELANGER’S MONKEY--THE PIG-TAILED MACAQUE--THE
MAGOT--One of the Commonest Monkeys--Described by
Galen--Early Notices of--Predatory Habits--Abundant at
Gibraltar--Probably come over from Africa--Similarity to
the Baboons--THE WANDEROO--Account of one in the Zoological
Society’s Collection--Geographical Range of the Macaques 114
CHAPTER VIII.
THE DOG-SHAPED MONKEYS (_continued_)--THE BABOONS.
Early Accounts of the Baboon--Origin of the
Name--Held as Sacred by the Egyptians--Used as the
Emblem of Thoth--Brought into Europe in the Middle
Ages--Their Literature--General Description of the
Family--Structural Peculiarities--Brain--Skull--Geographical
Distribution--THE SACRED BABOON--Found in Great numbers
in Abyssinia--Formidable Antagonists--Size and Colour of
the Male and Female--Anecdotes--Propensity for Spirituous
Liquors and Thieving--THE GELADA BABOON--THE PIG-TAILED
BABOON--Usually called Chacma--Description of it--Its
Ferocity in Captivity--Le Vaillant’s Monkey--THE SPHINX
BABOON--Its Dexterity of Aim--THE ANUBIS BABOON--Its Locality
and Food--Method of Running--THE COMMON BABOON--Often found
in Captivity--Anecdotes--Anatomical Peculiarities 129
CHAPTER IX.
THE DOG-SHAPED MONKEYS (_concluded_)--THE BABOONS.
The Second Division of the Baboons--THE MANDRILL--Easily
distinguished from the rest--Peculiar Appearance and
Colour of the Face--The Cheek-ridges--Noticed by the
Ancients--Brutality of its Disposition--“Jerry” at the Surrey
Gardens--Their Wild State--Anatomical Peculiarities--The
Back-bone and Liver--THE DRILL--Distinguished from the
Mandrill--Probable Antiquity of these Baboons--Theories of
their Relationship to other Animals--THE BLACK BABOON--Its
Locality and Description--Probably a Forest Ape--General
Summary of the Dog-shaped Quadrumana and Classification of
the Group 154
CHAPTER X.
THE MONKEYS OF THE NEW WORLD.
THE CEBIDÆ--THE HOWLERS--THE WOOLLY MONKEYS--THE SPIDER
MONKEYS--THE SAJOUS.
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