74 PYGATHRIX 



median length of nasals, 18.4; palatal length, 31.4; length of upper 

 molar series, 27.1; length of mandible, 63.9; length of lower molar 

 series, 31.1. 



Blanford says this species is shy and wary, the result of human 

 persecution. It inhabits the sholas or dense but abruptly limited woods 

 of the Nilgiris and other high ranges of Southern India, and is also 

 found in the forests on the slopes of the hills, usually in small troops 

 of from five to ten individuals. It is very noisy, having a loud guttural 

 alarm cry, used also to express anger, and a loud long call. Jordan 

 relates that when the sholas of the Nilgiri range were beaten for game, 

 these monkeys made their way rapidly and with loud cries to the 

 lower portion and thence to a neighboring wood at a lower level. 

 In consequence of the beauty of their skins, and the circumstances 

 that certain castes eat their flesh, these monkeys are more frequently 

 shot than most of the Indian species, hence their shyness. 



Pygathrix uksina Blyth. 



Presbytis ursina Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng., XX, 1851, p. 



155; Id. Cat. Mamm. Mus. Asiat. Soc. Beng., 1863, p. 13; 



Kelaart, Prodr. Faun. Zeylan., 1852, p. 2. 

 Semnopithecus ursinus Hutton, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, p. 



949; Anders., Zool. Res. Exped. Yunnan, 1878, p. 24; Id. Cat. 



Mamm. Ind. Mus. Calc, 1881, p. 441 ; Blanf., Faun. Brit. Ind., 



Mamm., 1894, p. 36; Forbes, Handb. Primates, II, 1894, p. 



122. 

 Vetulus ursinus Reichenb., Vollstand. Naturg. Affen, 1862, p. 128, 



not figured. 



URSINA LANCUR. 



Type locality. Nuwarra Eliya, Ceylon. Type not found in 

 Calcutta Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Mountains of Southern Ceylon, near Nuwarra 

 Eliya. 



Genl. Char. Similar to, but larger than P. cephaloloptera and 



P. JOHNI. 



Color. Superciliary stripe black, composed mostly of stiff erect 

 hairs; forepart and sides of head dark, slightly reddish brown; nape 

 and hind neck, yellowish brown; rump and base of tail, gray; entire 

 rest of pelage of body, limbs, hands, feet and tail, jet black. 



Measurements. Total length, 1,480; tail, 780; foot, 170, (skin). 



