no LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



They may be frequently seen congregated on the roof of a 

 native hut. 



The Singhalese have the impression that the remains of a 

 Monkey are never to be found in the forest ; a belief which 

 they have embodied in the proverb that '' he who has seen a 

 white Crow, the nest of a paddi bird, a straight coco-nut tree, or 

 a dead Monkey, is certain to live for ever." This piece of folk- 

 lore has evidently reached Ceylon from India, where it is be- 

 lieved that persons dwelling on the spot where a Hanuman 

 Monkey, Semnopithecus entellus, has been killed, will die, and 

 that even its bones are unlucky, and that no house erected 

 where they are hid underground can prosper ; and Buchanan 

 observes that "it is perhaps owing to this fear of ill-luck that no 

 native will acknowledge his having seen a dead Hanuman." 



VL THE MALABAR LANGUR. SEMNOPITHECUS HYPOLEUCUS. 



Sem7iopithecus hypoleiicos^ Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., x., p. 839 



(1841); xiii., p. 470 (1844); Anderson, Res. Zool. Exped. 



Yun-nan, p. 20 (1878; with full synonymy); Blanford, 



Faun. Brit. India, Mamm., p. 33 (1891). 

 Semnopithecus johnii^ var., Martin, Mammif. Anim., p. 489 



(1841) ; Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 14 (1870). 

 Setimopithecus dussumieri^ Is. Geoffr., C. R., xv., p. 719 (1842) ; 



id., Descr. An. Nouv. Fam. des Singes, p. 54, pi. xxx. ; id.. 



Cat. Meth. Primates, p. 13 (185 1); Schl., Mus. Pays- 



Bas, vii., p. 62 (1876). 

 Prcsbytis hypoleiicos, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., xvi. (1847), p. 733. 

 P?'esbytis johnii {n^c Fischer), Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., xxviii., p. 



283 (1859); id., Cat. Mam. As. Soc. Mus., p. 12 (1863); 



Jerd., Mamm. India, p. 7 (1867). 



