THE LANGURS. Ill 



Characters. — Similar to S. ejiiellus. No crest ; hair radiating 

 on crown ; back, sides, posterior aspect of thighs and tail dusky 

 brown, darker on the middle of the back; fore-arm, front of 

 thighs, and lower portion of legs, black ; head dirty yellow ; 

 under surface yellowish-white; face, hands, and feet, black. 

 Length of body, 21 inches ; of tail, 32 inches. 



Young. — Sooty-brown. 



DistriT)iition. — The forests and woods near cultivation along 

 the Malabar coast of India, below 1,500 feet. 



Habits. — Same as those of the Han u man. It is, however, 

 rather more shy. 



VII. THE NILGIRI LANGUR. SEMNOPITHECUS JOHNI. 



Simla jolmii^ Fischer, Syn. Mamm., i., p. 25 (1829). 

 Seinnopithecus cucullatiis, Is. Gcoffr. in Belang. Voy. Zool., pp. 



38, 72, pi. i. (1834); Wagner in Schreber Saugeth. Suppl, 



i., p. 98 (1846); Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 14 



(1870). 

 Sem7wJ)ithea{s johnu,\N^\.Qxh..^ Cat. Mamm. Mus. Zool. Soc, p. 5 



(1838); Anderson, Res. Zool. Exped.Yun-nan, p. 21 (1878; 



with synonymy); Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind., Mamm., p. t^Z 



(1891); Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 50 (1876). 

 Seinnopithecus Jiibatus, Wagner in Schreb. Saugeth. Suppl., i., 



p. 305 (1840) ; Horsf., Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. Co. Mus., p. 



14(1851). 

 Semnopithecus cephaioptcrus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., xiii., p. 



469 (1844; in part). 

 Presbytis johnii, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., xvi., pp. 734, 1272 (1847) 

 Preshytis aicullatus^ Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., xxviii., p. 283 (1S59); 



id., Cat. Mamm. As. Soc. Mus., p. 14 (1863). 

 Preshytis juhatus^ Terd., Mamm. India, p. 7 (1867), 



