50 PYGATHRIX 



S emtio pithecus rubicundus var. C. Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs 

 and Fruit-eating Bats, Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 17. 



PHAYRE'S LANCUR. 



Type locality. Arakan. Type in Calcutta Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Arakan, in the Passein district of Pegu, and prob- 

 ably northern Tenasserim. 



Genl. Char. Hair on top and sides of head long, forming a crest 

 on occiput ; tail very long. 



Color. Head pale mars brown ; upper part of back and shoulders 

 broccoli brown; back, sides and legs dusky inclining to grayish on 

 thighs ; arms, hands and feet blackish brown ; throat and under parts 

 yellowish white ; tail, dusky above, grayish beneath. Ex type Calcutta 

 Museum. 



A small, slender, inconspicuous species with a general grayish 

 brown appearance, darkest on the back. I could not find the skull 

 but Anderson who gives a description of it says it "has the interorbital 

 space of moderate length, the forehead rather full, but the supra 

 orbital ridges are not strongly developed, while the external orbital 

 angle of the frontal is rather prominent in adults." He gives no 

 measurements of the skull, but only those of the body and tail, viz.: 

 length of body, (head supposedly included), 462; tail, 539. Blanford 

 states (1. c). that Phayre's Leaf Monkey, as he calls this species, is 

 "found in dense forests, or amongst bamboos on the hill sides and on 

 the banks of streams, usually in flocks of twenty or thirty individuals. 

 It is very shy and wary, and is consequently more often heard than 

 seen, the whole flock when alarmed rushing through the forest shaking 

 the branches violently and leaping from tree to tree. But occasionally, 

 as Tickell observes, an old male stays behind in a safe post of vantage 

 on the top of one of the highest trees, where he may be heard uttering 

 his short, deep, alarm-cry at frequent intervals. This cry is an angry 

 bark, not unlike that of the Hanuman. I was once well scolded from 

 a tree by an old monkey, I believe of this species, on the edge of a 

 half deserted clearing in Southern Arakan. I had done nothing to 

 offend his monkeyship, but he evidently considered me as something 

 unusual and suspicious. Blyth observes that the young of this species, 

 besides making a whining noise to express their wants, emit a cry that 

 might be mistaken for the mew of a cat." 



Pygathrix flayicauda Elliot. 



Pygathrix iiavicauda Elliot, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXVHI, 

 1910, p. 352. 



