lO LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Distribution. — Moupin in N.W. China, living on the snow- 

 clad mountains; Upper Burmah (Bahmo) ; Siam; the Cachar 

 and Kachin hill-region on the western frontier of the Province 

 of Yun-nan, China; North-west Borneo, on the mainland 

 opposite Labuan. This species has been recorded, but 

 erroneously, from Madras, whither specimens are imported 

 from Burmah, or from the Malayan Islands. 



Dr. John Anderson, the distinguished naturalist of the Yun- 

 nan Expedition, gives the following interesting remarks in 

 reference to the distribution of this species : ^^ M. arctoides 

 would seem to have a considerable range of distribution, in 

 which, however, it conforms to that which is distinctive of a 

 large series of the Mammalian forms which occur in the same 

 region. It has been obtained in Cachar, and I have learned 

 of its existence in Upper Assam, and have procured it alive in 

 the Kachin Hills on the frontier of Yun-nan, beyond which 

 it spreads to the south-east of Cochin-China. It seems 

 essentially to be a hill or mountain form — occurring only in 

 the mountainous regions of Cachar, being absent in the valley 

 of the Irawady, but stretching round it into Yun-nan from 

 Upper Assam, being doubtless distributed over the moun- 

 tainous region that intervenes between the Irawady and 

 Cochin-China." 



Habits. — Of this Macaque little is known in a wild state. It 

 is, however, very docile and gentle in captivity. In life the 

 tail is rarely carried erect, and is as a rule applied over the 

 anus ; its latter fourth being doubled on itself to the left, and 

 serving to fill up the interspace between the divergent portion 

 of the callosities, so that the animal sits on this portion of its 

 tail, which contains only a few rudiments of vertebrae at its 



