. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . HUNTING MONKEYS. 15». WHITE-EYELID MONKEY, family are considered most excellent eating—by those who can getover the appearance of the animal and of its bones when cookedThere are not many, however, who can sit down to a dish ofmonkeys without feeling that it is rather a cannibalish Mangabey, or White-eyelid Monkey,* belongs to thegenus cercocebus. Western Africa is his locality. The Man-gabey, with its upper eyelids of a dead white, was so named byBuffon, from the erroneous supposition that his specimens werebrought from that territory in Mada
. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . HUNTING MONKEYS. 15». WHITE-EYELID MONKEY, family are considered most excellent eating—by those who can getover the appearance of the animal and of its bones when cookedThere are not many, however, who can sit down to a dish ofmonkeys without feeling that it is rather a cannibalish Mangabey, or White-eyelid Monkey,* belongs to thegenus cercocebus. Western Africa is his locality. The Man-gabey, with its upper eyelids of a dead white, was so named byBuffon, from the erroneous supposition that his specimens werebrought from that territory in Madagascar. In a state of captivityit is a most unwearied droll—frolicsome and good-natured William Jardine mentions a female in Mr. Wombwells mena-gerie that was most lively, and gives a figure of her, no easy task,for she was never at rest for one moment; and her activity wasincreased when she perceived that she was noticed. She per-formed, says Sir William, ^< many of the attitudes of the mostexperienced harlequins. * * ^ She was remark
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