of a Zoological Collection made in Sumatra. 247 



The Kra is not easily domesticated. The natives distinguish 

 a whiter variety, with a reddish shade on the back. 



Besides the Kra above described, there is a smaller species 

 called the Kra Buku, which only differs in size, and in wanting 

 the circle of hair round the face. This little animal, which is less 

 than a foot in length, is equally common in the other Malay 

 islands. The head is remarkable in having very little hair on the 

 temples, in which it strikingly differs from the larger species. 



SIMIA maura? Linn. 

 Lotoxg of the Malays. cjJ 

 Found at Singapore and Penang. 

 This species is often eighteen or twenty inches long and twelve or 

 thirteen in height when on all fours. The tail is some inches 

 longer than the body. Its colour is chiefly black. The hair of 

 the arms, legs, and top of the head is tipped with grey. The 

 inside of the thighs and lower part of the abdomen are entirely 

 white ; a line of white also extends from thence to the throat ; 

 the breast and axillre are light grey. The hands, feet, ears 

 and face are black. The lips are furnished with short whitish 

 hairs mixed with a few longer black ones. Beard scanty, and 

 composed of a few black hairs. The cheeks have also some 

 black hairs. The hair diverges from the crown of the head 

 so as to project over the forehead in front, and to form a kind 

 of crest behind. Head and face small. Nose flat at the point, 

 where the nostrils open laterally. It is not easily tamed. 



LEMUR tardigradus Linn. 

 Kukang (Malay). ^£= 

 Of this the natives distinguish a large and a small variety : the 

 former they call Bruh samundi, and describe it as a larger and 



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