. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. TSE MACAQUES. 117 Tlie Macaques have their ears rather pointed at the tip, and not rounded, and the general shape of their bodies is not lanky like that of the active long-legged Guenons and Semnopitheci. They are less gracefully made, and the dog-like appearance, so palpable in the Baboon, is recognised in their fore parts and head. Moreover, the colours are not usually pretty and variegated, as in many of the kinds of the genera already described, but are dun and sad in tint. Their tail varies according to the species in length, and a ro
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. TSE MACAQUES. 117 Tlie Macaques have their ears rather pointed at the tip, and not rounded, and the general shape of their bodies is not lanky like that of the active long-legged Guenons and Semnopitheci. They are less gracefully made, and the dog-like appearance, so palpable in the Baboon, is recognised in their fore parts and head. Moreover, the colours are not usually pretty and variegated, as in many of the kinds of the genera already described, but are dun and sad in tint. Their tail varies according to the species in length, and a rough method of classification may be made which divides them into those with long, tliose with moderate, and those with short and almost no tails. The large Common Macaque (J/, cynomolyuis), and the Round-faced, or Fprmosan Monkeys (M. cijclopis), and the Bonnet Monkey, represent the long-tailed kinds ; the Bhunder {M. rhesus), has a tail of middle length ; and the short-tailed gi-oup about to be mentioned consists of tlie Moor,. the Pig-tailed, and the Belanger Monkey. The tail-less one includes the Magot. Finally, the Silenus Ajie, usually miscalled Wanderoo, is so baboonish that, although it has a long tail, it cannot be placed with the Common Macaque in the beginning of the chapter, but must come at the end, so as to lead to the true Dog-headed Apes, or Baboons, which will be described further on. If the remarks in page 106 about the fourth division of the Cercopitheci are now read carefull}^, it mil be understood how these Monkeys, the Macaques and the Baboons, form a group of creatures which is only i-eally separable into kinds or species, but that the genera are very artificial. THE COiniON MACAQVE.* The so-called Common Macaque, or Macacus cynomolyus, represents the long-tailed section of the genus, and grows to be a powerful animal amongst the other small Monkeys, over a very wide of country. It lives in Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Batchian, in the islands f
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