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Rh animal, which is often pulled back by the tail, chastised with a cuff on the head, and then gravely huddled up to the breast, where the shrieks and chattering of the delinquent, which is just as fractious as a child under such circumstances, are soon appeased."

Like the rest of the genus, this monkey is easily tamed if taken young; it is intelligent and full of antics. The females continue gentle, but the males become morose and savage as they grow old.

This species is the Macaque of Buffon, but is not the Simia cynomolgos of Linnæus, which is an African baboon. F. Cuvier called attention to these facts in 1818, but his remarks appear to have been generally overlooked. As in the case of M. silenus, the name has been used too long to be altered now with a probability of a less familiar term being generally accepted.  


 * Simia sinica, Linn. Mantissa, p. 521 (1771).
 * Cercocebus radiatus, Geoffr. Ann. du Mus. xix, p. 98 (1812).
 * Macacus radiatus, Blyth, Cat. p. 8; Jerdon, Mam. p. 12.
 * Macacus sinicus, Anderson, An. Zool. Res. p. 90; id. Cat. p. 59.

Bandar, H.; Makadu, Wánar, Kerda, Mahr.; Manga, Kodaga, Can.; Koti, Tel.; Koranga, Vella manthi, Mal.; Kurangu, Tamul; Mucha, Kúrg; Kodan, Toda.

Fur of moderate length, generally straight and smooth. Hair of the crown lengthened and radiating from the vertex, but not usually extending over the forehead, where the shorter hair is parted, as a rule, down the middle. Tail nearly or quite as long as the head and body. Caudal vertebræ 22.

The skull is long, flattened over the brows, with the orbits much broader than high and nearly vertical. Compared with the skull of M. rhesus, that of M. sinicus is vertically much lower; thus the skull of which the measurements are given below is 3·05 inches in height, the mandible included, whilst a skull of M. rhesus one tenth of an inch shorter is, with its mandible, 3·5 inches high.

Colour. Hair-brown to greyish brown above, pale brown or whitish below. Fur annulated towards the ends in some specimens. Face and ears flesh-coloured.

Dimensions. Head and body of an adult male 19½ inches, tail 22; weight 16 lbs. The tail, however, is generally rather longer in proportion. An adult male skull is 4·8 inches long from occiput, 3·5 from foramen, and 3·5 broad across the zygomatic arches.

Distribution. Southern India, extending on the West Coast to the neighbourhood of Bombay, but on the East not further than the Godavari; it is doubtful indeed if this species is found so far north as that river.

This monkey is replaced in Ceylon by the next, which appears only to differ in colour. In general M. sinicus has shorter and smoother fur, and the radiating hair on the crown is shorter, not