ii6 Lloyd's natural history. 



on the rock in which it is situated — which were, doubtless, a 

 variety of the Wanderoo. Pliny was aware of the fact that 

 White Monkeys are occasionally found in India. 



"When observed in their native wilds, a party of twenty or 

 thirty of these creatures is generally busily engaged in the 

 search for berries and buds. They are seldom to be seen on 

 the ground, except when they may have descended to recover 

 seeds or fruit which have fallen at the foot of their favourite 

 trees. When disturbed, their leaps are prodigious ; but, 

 generally speaking, their progress is made, not so much by 

 leaping, as by swinging from branch to branch, using their 

 powerful arms alternately ; and when baffled by distance, 

 flinging themselves obliquely so as to catch the lower boughs 

 of an opposite tree, the momentum acquired by their descent 

 being sufficient to cause a rebound of the branch, that carries 

 them up again, till they can grasp a higher and more distant 

 one, and thus continue their headlong flight. In these perilous 

 achievements, wonder is excited, less by the surpassing agility 

 of these little creatures, frequently encumbered as they are by 

 their young, which cling to them in their career, than by the 

 quickness of their eye, and the unerring accuracy with v/hich 

 they seem almost to calculate the angle at wliich a descent will 

 enable them to cover a given distance, and the recoil to attain 

 a higher altitude." 



IX. PATTAN LANGUP. SEMNOPITHECUS SABANUS. 



Senuiopithecus saba?ms, Thomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), 



xii., p. 230, pi. vii. (head), (1893). 



Characters. — Allied to S. hosii, S. eve ret fi, and 6". thomasi 



Body, tail, and limbs grey ; forehead with a high vertical 



median crest, commencing on the brow, black, with some white 



