242 Sir T. S. Raffles 's Descriptive Catalogue 



the Simia Lar of Linnaeus in being tailless, having naked callo- 

 sities and arms reaching to the feet. It differs, however, essen- 

 tially in having the index and middle toes, or rather fingers, of 

 the hind feet united as far as the middle of the second phalanx ; 

 in having two loose and naked folds of skin on the throat, 

 which I have observed to be occasionally inflated with air ; and 

 in being entirely black, with the exception of a few brown hairs 

 on the chin, which appear to become grey with age. The hair 

 is long and soft ; the face is without hair and black, as are also 

 the breasts of the female. The orbits of the eyes are circular 

 and remarkably prominent. The canine teeth are long. 

 Besides the specimens in the collection, I have recently pro- 

 cured a living Siamang, which is very tame and tractable : in fact, 

 he is never happy but when allowed to be in company with some 

 one. 



Samang; or Siamano; is the name eiven to certain tribes of ab- 

 original inhabitants of the Malay peninsula. See Preface to 

 Marsden's Grammar, and Asiatic Researches, vol. xii. 



There is said to be a white variety of the Siamang found at 

 Tapus and Barus ; and I have accounts of one of these having 

 been lately seen at Palembang, but it is probably nothing more 

 than an accidental variety. 



SIMIA Lab Linn. 



There is found on the Peninsula of Malacca a smaller Gibbon 

 than the preceding, which is probably the true Simia Lar. It 

 does not exceed two feet in height, and is black, with a white 

 circle round the face. It is there called Ungka etam. JLa il&l 



I have now in my possession a living specimen of another 

 Gibbon called here Ungka puti, j>£ ijJsS which appears nearly 

 related to the Wouwou fjy of Java, or Simia leucisca Schr. In 

 size it is considerably less than the Siamang, not exceeding two 



feet, 



