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MONKEYS.
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stout, thick-set forms, and short tails, as well as
for the malignity of their savage countenances,
their gigantic strength, and the brutal ferocity of
their manners. ‘They inhabit Africa, frequent
rocky ridges more than sylvan forests, go on all
fours, and subsist, for the most part, on scorpions,
which they find under stones, and divest of their
stings by a dexterous action of the thumb and
finger.
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CHACMA.
We select, for illustration of this genus, the Chacma of South Africa (Cynocephalus porcarius, Desm.), the colour of which is blackish brown,
