WARDER00', a name which has been given to several species of monkey. The spe• ties commonly described under the name is macaws silenus or silenus refer, a native of the coast of Malabar, a monkey of rather large size, deep black throughout, except a ruff of long gray or white hair, from the midst of which the face looks forth, and which descends over the chest, giving the animal a very peculiar aspect. This monkey exhibits considerable intelligence and docility, and performs its tricks with an absurd air of gravity.—The name wanderoo, however, more properly belongs to monkeys of the genus presbytes, natives of Ceylon, to which it is given by the Singhalese, and appears to have been transferred by mistake to the species just described, which is not found in Ceylon. The wanderoos of Ceylon are all small monkeys. The best-known species is presbytes eephalopterus, found in the low parts of the island. It feeds chiefly on the berries and buds of trees, and is seldom seen on the ground. Twenty or thirty are generally found together in a troop. When alarmed, they display marvelous agility
in leaping, or rather swinging from branch to branch, using their powerful arms alter nately, often flinging themselves obliquely so as to catch the lower bough of an opposite tree, and taking advantage of its rebound to carry them up again till they can reach a higher branch; the females, all the while, being often encumbered by their young,which cling to them. This monkey is far from being so mischievous as monkeys in. general. "In captivity it is remarkable for the gravity of its demeanor, and for an air of melan choly in its expression and movements which is complet•ly in character with its snowy beard and venerable aspect."—Tennyit's Ceylon. Its ctsposition is extremely gentle and affectionate; it is intelligent and docile, and very cleanly in its habits.—Several other species of wanderoo or presbytes are found in Ceylon, some of them in the more elevated parts of the island.