24 POPULAR SCRIPTURE ZOOLOGY.

olive-green colour, variegated with grey; the cheeks are
covered with long, pale yellow hair. It is a native of
several parts of Africa.

The Moustache Monkey (Cercopithecus cephus) is a na-
tive of Western Africa. It has two tufts of yellow hair on
the cheeks, whence its name is derived ; the face is bare, and
of a bluish-black colour; the hair on the head yellow, varied
with black, that on the body and limbs red and ash-colour,
the under part being rather paler.

Having thus given a slight sketch of this tribe of ani-
mals, including only those species which, from the countries
they inhabit, were probably known to the Hebrews, we will
endeavour to collect and simplify the opinions of various
authors, with regard to those members of the family which
are named in the Sacred Writings.

In the 1st book of Kings, x. 22, is the following passage :

—“For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish, with the
navy of Hiram; once in three years came the navy of Thar-
shish, bringing gold and silver, ivory, and ayes, and pea-
cocks.” Apes are again mentioned, in nearly similar words,
in 2 Chron. ix. 21. Now it will be evident to the reader,
that from this vague notice no certainty can be arrived at
with regard to species, the original word foph being quite