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Show Skin of Rare Monkey Is Given to Smithsonian Washington. The skin of one of the most hideous creatures in the world a kin-tsen-heou, or "monkey of the snows" has been added to the Smithsonian Smith-sonian institution's collection of strange specimens. The skin is one of few ever received in America or Europe. Due to the remoteness re-moteness and inaccessibility of Its habitat, hab-itat, the kin-tsen-heou is one of the rarest of animals. It possesses an evil, short face ranging rang-ing in color from green to turquoise. Its large, bulging eyes and pointed, upturned up-turned nose are surrounded by a beard of long orange hair. The body is covered cov-ered with hair six or seven inches long and varies in color from gold to silver. The monkeys band together in bamboo bam-boo forests, just below the line of per petual snows. They are adapted more to intense cold than any of their kins men. Pere David, famous French priest-naturalist, priest-naturalist, discovered the "monkey of the snows" known scientifically as "rhinopithecus" more than sixty years ago. It is a close relative of the sacred sa-cred Hoonuman monkey of India. It is believed that no specimen of the creature ever has been brought from the Orient alive. Alive, it would constitute a great zoological prize. |