. Animals in menageries. tives, on account of its varietyand comparative beauty. Whenever an individual iscaptured, the greatest care is taken in its domestication,and it is uniformly treated with kindness and attention;while the black species, or Buheng, as before remarked,is neglected and despised except for the value of its BLACK-CBESTED MONKEY. 15 fur. Several preserved specimens are contained in thehonourable East India companys musemn. The fur^ like that of the Buheng, is long, delicate,soft, and silky : while the colour in the latter is in-tensely black, in this it is reddish brown, wit
. Animals in menageries. tives, on account of its varietyand comparative beauty. Whenever an individual iscaptured, the greatest care is taken in its domestication,and it is uniformly treated with kindness and attention;while the black species, or Buheng, as before remarked,is neglected and despised except for the value of its BLACK-CBESTED MONKEY. 15 fur. Several preserved specimens are contained in thehonourable East India companys musemn. The fur^ like that of the Buheng, is long, delicate,soft, and silky : while the colour in the latter is in-tensely black, in this it is reddish brown, with a beauti-ful golden gloss on the back, head, tail, and extremities,gradually changing into a pale yellowish underneath,where, however, the golden gloss is still preserved : thefur above is long, shaggy, and thick; but on the underparts it is thin, curled, silky, and of a very delicate tex-ture. The Black-crested Monkey. Seranopithecus melalopbus, F. Cuvier. Simia melalophus,Raffles. Semipai, of the Javanese. (Fie/. 2.). This very singularly formed species was first de-scribed by sir Stamford Raffles * as a native of Suma-tra, where, in the neighbourhood of Bencoolen, it is notunfrequent. We have not yet heard of living specimenshaving been brought to this country ; but our zoologicalimportations are now so numerous that every monthbrings some novelty; while, on the other hand, thecoldness and humidity of our climate occasion a constantmortality, in the winter, among those animals whichnaturally inhabit the tropics. The species before us_, witha few others, is remarkable for the great length of itshinder legs, in comparison to its arms or fore legs; a * Trans, of Linn. Society, xiii. 245. l6 ANIMALS IN MENAGERIES. Structure the very reverse of the gihhons (Hylobates 111.),or long-armed apes of the Indian continent, which, astheir name imphes, have the fore legs disproportionablylonger than the hinder. What peculiarities of habitresult from this structure, in the present animal
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