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liody and limbs is of a pale yellowish. The lail is dark lirown at the base, palinp; 

 somewhat towards the tip, which is sli^'htly tiiftud. The face and ears are dusky." 

 This species, Dr. Anderson also remarks, " dili'ers from all adult examples of the 

 common monkey of the plains of India {M. rhcsm) wdiich have come under my 

 observation, in "the anterior half of the body, wanting the asliy tint, which is so 

 characteristic of the adults, and in the liinder portion of the body being in no way 

 rufous." 



This monkey is found in troops along the Irrawaddy below Bbamo. 



M. luiKsus, Audebert. 



Above brownish-ochrey or rufcms. Limbs and beneath ashy brown. Sacral 

 callosities and adjoining parts red, seasonally very brilliant. Face of adult males 

 also red. Length of head and body 22 ; tail 11 inches. 



This is the common ' bandar ' or red monkey of all India, and ranges according 

 to Anderson into Hotha and Momien. 



The brutal and degrading resemblance to man of this animal has always been the 

 subject of wonder and disgust to the pride and sensibilities of all anti-Darwinians. 

 Ko greater ignominy could the poet heap on the miserable Eutropius, than when, in 

 those scathing lines, he likens him to this animal — 



' ' Humani qualis simalator simius oris 

 Quem puer arridens, pretrioso stamine Scrum 

 Yelavit, uudasque nates et terga reliquit. 

 Ludilirium mensis, erecto pcctore dives 

 Ambulat et claro, sese deformat amictu." 



(Claudian, In. Eutr. Lib. I. 303).' 



But the most curious point about these ' odorous ' comparisons (as Mr. Malaprop 

 would say), lies in the fact that the Anthropoid Apes would seem to be more disgusted 

 with their poor relations than man himself, and I have myself noticed the intense 

 annoyance and anger displayed by an adolescent female of the Asiatic ' Orangutan ' 

 at the presence of a Rhesus monkey. There was an unmistakable desire on her part 

 to claim kinship with and recognition by man, and a laughable repudiation by her of 

 her humble relative the monkey, and there could be no question that the degrading 

 similarity of feature displayed by the Ilhesus was more offensive and intolerable to 

 the ape than even to man. This remark seems to liear on the truthfulness to nature 

 of Shakespeare, even in such a triviality as Caliban's dislike for these animals, where 

 he says, 



" We shall lose our time and all be turned to Barnacles or to apes 

 With foreheads villaitious low." 



A descent in the scale of nature, if slight, yet not the less dreadful in Caliban's eyes. 

 The ape here meant is no doubt a Ithcsus monkey, and not one of the Anthropoid 

 apes, as would be generally understood by the term now. 



Family Colabidse. 

 SEMNoriTHEcus, /''. Vuvicr. 

 Long-tailed monkeys with sacculated stomachs and no cheek-pouches. 

 S. B.uuiKi, Blyth. 



Colour dark fuliginous, with a silvery grey wash over the head, back, and sides. 

 Hands, feet, and eyebrows black. Face bluish-black. 

 Head and body 19-5 ; tail 29 inches. 



Inhabits the Tippora Hills, the Kakhyen Hills, and the Inawaddy Valley above 

 Mandalay. 



' So looks that mimic of the liunmii foi-m 

 An ape, whom Iioys witli silkcu robus adorn 

 And round the banquet lead ; he stalks sedate 

 The jest of all wlio view his borrowed state, 

 While the rich vestments on bis shoulders borno 

 Leave bare his buttocks, to the "azer's scorn. 



