_Simia sinica_, Linn., Mantissa, Plant., p. 521 (1771).
_Cercocebus radiatus_, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 98 (1812).
_Le Toque mâle_, F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat., Mamm., livr. xviii. (Juin, 1820).
_Macacus sinicus_, Blyth, J. A. S., Beng., xvi., p. 1272 (1847); Gray,
Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 28 (1870); Anderson, Zool. Exped. Yun-nan, p.
91 (1878; with synonymy); Blanford, Faun. Brit. Ind., Mamm., p. 23
(1891).
_Cercocebus sinicus_, Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 99 (1876).
CHARACTERS.--Face nude; forehead thinly haired and wrinkled; cheeks hollow;
muzzle narrow and protuberant; ears naked and rather prominent; tail nearly
as long as the body.
Hair in general moderately long, straight and smooth, that on the crown
elongated and radiating in all directions from the vertex, but not covering
the forehead, on which the short and {36}sparse hairs are parted down the
middle. Length, 27 inches; tail, 24 inches, but often proportionately
longer.
General colour of the back and the upper side of the tail brownish-olive;
outside of the limbs greyish--the hairs grey at the roots, ringed higher up
with dull yellow and black bars; under surface of the body and inside of
the limbs, and under side of the tail whitish; face, ears, callosities, and
other nude parts livid flesh-colour.
Skull long, lower than that of _M. rhesus_; orbits with the transverse
diameter greater than the vertical.
DISTRIBUTION.--Inhabiting all Southern India, being conterminous with the
_M. rhesus_ on the east and west coast, the latter species coming as far
south as, and the Bonnet Macaque going no further north than, the Godaveri
river on the one side and Bombay on the other. (See page 23.)
HABITS.--The Bonnet Macaque agrees in habits with those of the species
already described. It lives in troops in the forests and jungles everywhere
throughout its range. It is much kept in captivity, owing to its docility
and its wonderful powers of mimicry.