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MONA MONKEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 686 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MONA

MONA See also:
MONKEY
MONKEY , a See also:

West See also:

AFRICAN

African representative of the See also:

GROUP

group of monkeys generally known as guenons, and scientifically as Cercopithecus. The mona (C. mona) typifies a sub-genus of the same name (Mona) characterized, among other features, by the presence of a See also:

black See also:

BAND

band See also:

RUNNING

running from the See also:

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle of each See also:

eye to the See also:

EAR (common Teut.; O.E. are, Ger. Ohr, Du. oor, akin to Lat. auris, Gr. ovs)

ear. In the mona itself the See also:

general See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour of the upper parts is black, with a pair of See also:

OVAL (Lat. ovum, egg)

oval See also:

white spots near the See also:

root of the tail, while a band across the forehead and the whole under See also:

SURFACE

surface are likewise white.

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