122 PITHECHIR MELANÜRUS. 



NOTE XXL 

 PITHECHIR MELANÜRUS S. MULLER 



BY 



Dr. F. A. JENTINK. 



February 1892. 



(Plates 3 and 4). 



Mr. J. D. Pasteur, well-known to the readers of our 

 » Notes" (cf. Notes from the Leyden Museum, 1890, p. 

 209), having removed from Padang Sidempoean (Sumatra) 

 to Batavia (Java), wrote to me to send him over a colo- 

 red drawing of P. melanurus , for in the possession of it 

 he dared say that he could procure specimens, if the spe- 

 cies truly was to be found on the Goenong Gedeh. After 

 having received the desired drawing he had neither rest 

 nor repose until he had kept his word. And indeed on 

 December 3, 1891 I received a postcard d. d. November 

 3 , with the good news , that in his possession were two 

 living adult specimens , cf and 9 1 the latter with a half 

 grown young , captured on the northern slope of the Goe- 

 nong Gedeh and that he intended to send them over pre- 

 served in spirits as soon as possible. 



Dr. Sclater was kind enough to communicate Pasteur's 

 discovery to the members of the Zoological Society in the 

 meeting of January 5. 



A couple of days afterward I received a letter in which 

 Mr. Pasteur gave an account of the troubles he had to 

 overcome before he got the said specimens, the way how 

 they have been captured and their behavior in confinement. 



I think it to be full of interest to naturalists if I here- 

 after give a translation of a part of the named letter , 



I^^otes from the JLieyde» Museum, Vol. XIV. 



