456 Mr. E. Blytli^s Notices of various Mammalia. 



skin under consideration to be a doubtful variety of S. Anchises, 

 the more especially as its coat is also longer than in specimens 

 of >S^. Entellus of corresponding age. 



Another allied species^ of which the description does not tally 

 with either of the foregoing, is the S. schistaceus, Hodgson (Journ. 

 As. Soc. ix. 1212), "from the Tarai forest and lower hills, rarely 

 the Kachar also," of Nepal, and which would seem to approach 

 nearest to >S. Anchises. It is described as " dark slaty above ; 

 below, and the entire head, pale yellow; mere hands and feet 

 somewhat darkened or concolorous with the body above ; tail also 

 concolorous : hair on the crown short and radiated ; on the cheeks 

 long, directed back, and hiding the ears : piles or fur of one sort, 

 neither harsh nor soft, more or less wavy ; three to five and a 

 half inches long upon the body, closer and shorter on the tapered 

 tail, which is more or less tufted." 



The Mussoorie Lungoors have been thus described to me by 

 Capt. Thos. Hutton, from whom I hope shortly to receive some 

 specimens. " I fell in," writes that observer (in a letter dated 

 Dec. 30th,), "with a whole lot of monkeys this morning, and 

 took a leisurely survey of them ; they were dark grayish, with pale 

 hands and feet, white head, dark face, white throat and breast, and 

 white tip to the tail. This is, I think, the Nepal and Simla species. 

 The Macacus Rhesus is found here also, but I do not remember 

 it in the winter, though it may remain in some of the deep warm 

 valleys*." Elsewhere he remarks, "I have long thought that 

 the Lunffoor of our parts must be distinct from the S. Entellus of 

 Bengal, on account of the difierent locality in which it is found ; 

 for assuredly were the Entellus to occur here in summer, it would 

 retire to the plains on the approach of winter. Our species, 

 on the contrary, seems to care nothing for the cold ; and after a 

 fall of snow, a glen on my estate which opens to the north-west is 

 crowded with them. In fact, I really believe they are more nu- 

 merous during the cold than during the hot weather. On the 

 Simla side I observed them also, leaping and playing about, while 

 the fir-trees among which they sported were loaded with snow- 

 wreaths. I have seen them at an elevation of little short of 

 11,000 feet even in the autumn, when hard frost occurred every 

 night, and that was at Hattoo or Whartoo mountain, three marches 

 in the interior from Simla. * * * It grows to a goodly size, and 

 is rather a formidable-looking fellow." Captain Hutton^s sug- 

 gestion, that the Himalayan Lungoor must be diff'erent from the 



* In Journ. As. Soc. vi. 935, Capt. Hutton states, of the M. Rhesus, " This 

 species I saw repeatedly during the month of February, when the snow was 

 five or six inches deep at Simla, roosting? in the trees at night, on the side 

 of Jaku, and apparently regardless of the cold." — Journal of a Trip to the 

 Burenda Pass. 



