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MONKEY TRIBE- 



Five species of Quadrumana, the monkey tribe, have 

 been found in these Provinces, and the Karens have names 

 for two others, a small grey white-eyelid monkey,* and a 

 red-rumped pig-tailed monkey ;t but these may prove to be 

 varieties of the other species. Arracan has two species 

 that have not been seen in these Provinces. 



WHITE-HANDED GIBBON, Or LONG-ARMED APE. 



The first sounds that usher in the morning in the Karen 

 mountain glens, are the wailing cries of the gibbons on 

 the hill sides around. The whole of the interior of the 

 Provinces is alive with them ; and their habit of scream- 

 ing as soon as the day dawns is celebrated in Karen poetry. 

 There are all varieties of shade in their colouring, from 

 tawny white to jet black. 



Hylobates Lar, Ogilby. 



Grand Gibbon, Buffon 



Homo Lar, Linne, Mantiss. 



$imia longimana, Schreber. 



Simia Lar, Linne Syst. 



Pithecus Lar, Desmarest. 



Simia albimana, Vigors and Horsfield. 



Hylobates Lar, Lesson, apud Martin. 



Hylobates albimanus, Schinz. 



LIGHT-COLOURED VARIETY. 



Petit Gibbon, Buffon. 



Hylobates variegatus, Ogilby. 



Hylobates leuciscus, Cantor. 



CQpoSc^ccc^u ( g^8c^gsj]scdoii Arracan.) 



HOOLOCK GIBBON. 



The long armed ape of Arracan is a different species 

 from the preceding, which is the only one that has 



