THE MACAQUES. I9 



Macams sUeiius, Desm., Mamm., p. 6^^ (1820); Anders., Zool. 



Exped. Yun-nan, p. 93 (1878; with full synonymy); 



Blanford, Faun. Brit. Ind., Mamm., p. 16, fig. 5 ; Schl., 



Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 109 (1876). 

 Siienus veter, Gray, Cat. Monkeys, Brit. Mus., p. 32 (1870). 



Characters. — Head round ; muzzle wide ; hair on top of the 

 head very short; face surrounded by long hairs, concealing the 

 ears, and meeting under the chin ; ears naked ; face, hands, feet, 

 and callosities naked ; tail slender, one-half to three-quarters 

 the length of the body and tufted with hair. Length, 24 

 inches ; tail, 10 inches. 



Skull rounded ; muzzle wide in front, contracted at the base, 

 concave beneath the orbits; orbital ridges large, and the 

 frontal bone widely depressed behind them ; pre-molars and 

 molars small. The structure of this animal is essentially that 

 of the ordinary Macaques, although it differs from them so 

 much in external physiognomy. {A?iderson). 



Body, limbs, and tail deep black ; a ruff of long hairs round 

 the head, darkish grey ; chest greyish or white; tail tipped with 

 greyish or white ; face, hands, and feet black ; callosities flesh- 

 coloured. 



Distribution. — "The Lion-tailed Macaque inhabits the Western 

 Ghats from below Goa to Cape Comorin, but there is no au- 

 thentic record of its existence in a wild state in Ceylon." 

 {Anderson.) It lives at a considerable altitude above the sea. 



Habits.— This species, according to Jerdon (to whom, as Dr. 

 Blanford observes, we are indebted for the only authentic 

 account of this animal in a wild state), inhabits the most dense 

 and unfrequented forests of the hills near the Malabar coast, in 

 herds of from twelve to twenty or more. It is shy and wary. 



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