CHAPTER VII.

THE DOG-SHAPED MONKEYS (_continued_)--THE MACAQUES.

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