I40 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Distribution. — The present species inhabits the forests of the 

 high mountains which clothe the western region of the Princi- 

 paHty of Moupin, in North-western China, to Kokonoor and 

 Kansu Kinsu. 



Habits. — This very remarkable animal, whose discovery we 

 owe to the researches of that renowned traveller, the Abbe 

 David, lives in large troops on the highest trees of the forest, 

 in regions where the snow lies throughout the greater part of 

 the year. It feeds on fruits, leaves, and the young shoots of 

 the forest-trees, and of the wild bamboo. It has been placed by 

 some systematists in a separate genus, Rhinopitheais, along 

 with Nasalis larvafus, from Borneo, on account of the extra- 

 ordinary form of its nose and of the length of the arm being 

 greater than the fore-arm ; but in its structural characters it is 

 very closely related to Semiiopithecus. 



THE NOSED MONKEYS. GENUS NASALIS. 

 Nasalis, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 90 (181 2). 

 This genus contains only one species, 



THE PROBOSCIS MONKEY. NASALIS LARVATUS. 



{Plate XXXVII.) 



Cercopithecus larvatiis, Wurmb., Verhand. Bat. Genootsch., iii., 



p. 145 (1781) ; Kuhl, Beitr. Zool., p. 12 (1820). 

 Simia nasica, F. Cuv., Diet. Sc. Nat., xx., p. 32 (1821). 

 Nasalis larvatus, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 90 (1812); Lesson, 



Spec, des Mamm., p. ()^ (1840) ; Jacq. et Puch., Voy. 



au Pole Sud, Zool. iii., p. 17, pis. 2, 2A, 2B (1853); 



Lenz, Zool. Gart., xxxii., p. 216; Gray, Cat. Monkeys 



Brit. Mus., p. 13 (1870); Hose, Mamm. Borneo, p. 8 



(1893). 



