THE GIBBONS. l6l 



forests as high as 3,500 feet above the sea; living in troops 

 numbering from ten to twenty-five. Its habits are very similar 

 to those of other Gibbons, although Tickell observed that they 

 were less light and active than the Hoolock, and had a different 

 voice. It is said to drink, as the Siamang does, by dipping 

 its hands into the water, and not to put its mouth down to it 

 like the Hoolock. " So entirely does it depend on its hands 

 for locomotion amongst trees," remarks Dr. Blanford, "that it 

 carries everything in its feet. Tickell, from whom I take these 

 details, says that he has seen a party of II. lar escape thus with 

 their plunder from a Karen garden in the forest." "The young 

 are born in the early part of the cold season," continues Dr. 

 Blanford, *' and each sticks to the body of its mother for 

 about seven months, after which it begins gradually to shift for 

 itself.' 



V. THE HOOLOCK. IIYLOBATES HOOLOCK. 



Simla lar, Phil. Trans., lix., p. 607 (1769) 



Simla hoolock^ Harlan, Tr. Am. Phil. Sue, iv. (n. s.), p. 52, 



pi. 2 (1834.) 

 Hylobates coromandiis, Ogilby, P. Z. S., 1837, p. 689; Martin, 



I\Iammif. Anim., p. 415 (1841) ; Is. Geoffr., Arch. Mus., 



ii-: P- 535 (1843); Dlyth, J. As. Soc. Beng., xiii., p. 464 



(1844.) 

 Hylobates hoolock, Waterh., Cat. T\Iamm. Mus. Zool. Soc, p. 



3 (1838); Martin, Mammif. Anim., p. 416(1841); Is. 



Geofilr., Arch. Mus., ii., p. 535 (1843); id-. Cat. Mcth. 



Primates, p. 9 (1851); Sclater, P. Z. S., i860, p. ^6, 



pi. v.; Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 11 (1870); 



Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 14 (1876) ; Anderson, Zool. 



Res. Exped. Yunnan, p. i (1878; with full synonymy); 



Blanford, Faun. Brit. Ind., Mamm.i p. 5 (i8tji). 



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