iS tLOYD^S NATURAL HISTORV. 



Length of body, iS}4 inches; of tail, 8 inches. 



Females. — Similar to the males ; the young of both sexes more 

 brightly coloured than the adults. Gestation in the Pig-tailed 

 Macaque lasts, according to Dr. Blanford, seven months and 

 twenty days. A singular variety of a female from the Baram 

 river, in Sarawak, Borneo, is of a dark fulvous above, darker 

 in the mesial line, much paler on the lower surface, and grow- 

 ing nearly white on the middle of the chest. 



Distribution. — Tenasserim, and chiefly in the southern parts 

 of that province; Southern Burmah, the Malay peninsula, 

 Bangka, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 



Habits. — The Pig- tailed Macaque inhabits the thick jungles 

 in the lower country, living in considerable companies, and 

 feeding on fruits, seeds, and insects. " When young, these 

 Monkeys are easily tamed," as Mr. Charles Hose records, ''and 

 in some places they are used to climb the cocoa-nut trees to 

 throw down the nuts, the Monkeys having been taught to throw 

 down only the ripe ones." This observation as to its collecting 

 cocoa-nuts was also made many years ago by Sir Stamford Raffles 

 in Sumatra. When old, the males are very savage, and will at- 

 tack a Dog when provoked. 



VIII. THE LION-TAILED MACAQUE. MACACUS SILENUS. 



Simia si/e/ius, Linn., Syst. Nat., i., p. 35 (1766) ; Schreber, Sau- 



geth, i., p. 87, pi. xi. (1775). 

 Cercopithecus veter^ Erxl., Syst. Regn. An., p. 24 (1777). 

 SiJTiia feroXy Shaw, Gen. Zool., i., p. 30, pi. xvi. (1800) 

 Papio silenus^ Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 102 (1812); Kuhl, 



Beitr. Zool., p. 18 (1820). 



