PIT H ECU S 199 



Milne-Edw., Recher. Mamm., 1868-74, p. 229; Schleg., Mus. 

 Pays-Bas, Simise, 1876, p. 113; Anders., Exped. Yunnan, 

 Zool., 1878, p. 83; Forbes, Handb. Primates, II, 1894, p. 25; 

 Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Columb. Mus., F. C. M. Pub., VIII, 

 1906, p. 557, Zool. Ser. 

 Macacus tcheliensis A. Milne-Edw., Recher. Mamm., 1868-74, p. 

 227, pis. XXXII, XXXIII, $ ; David, Journ. N. China Branch 

 Asiat. Soc, 1873, p. 220; Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Simiae, 

 1876, p. 113; Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 537; 

 Forbes, Handb. Primates, II, 1894, p. 22. 



HAIRY-EARED MACAQUE. 



Type locality. Province of Setchuen, China. Type in British 

 Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Provinces of Setchuen and Tche-li, western and 

 north-eastern China. Dupleix Mountains, 13,000 feet elevation, (Bon- 

 valot). 



Gent. Char. Size large ; ears hairy ; hairs of back and flanks with 

 rufous termination ; tail of type amputated. 



Color. Top of head, neck and back nearly to rump, the hairs are 

 slaty olive for basal two thirds their length, then banded with black 

 and tawny, giving the appearance when the fur is smoothed down of 

 a dark orange hue, the tawny bars overpowering the other hues ; this 

 color grades on the rump into uniform bright orange; arms slaty olive, 

 hairs tipped with tawny ; upper part of legs dark cinnamon, a very diffi- 

 cult hue to designate as it grades off from the orange of the rump, 

 and becomes neither red nor brown; sides of head, throat and chest 

 olive gray ; abdomen olive gray, hairs tipped with ochraceous ; hands 

 blackish ; feet mixed black and dark cinnamon. The tail has disap- 

 peared altogether. Face flesh color. Ex type British Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 610; foot, 163, (skin). Skull: 

 total length, 133.5; occipito-nasal length, 112.3; zygomatic width, 99; 

 intertemporal width, 49.4 ; breadth of braincase, 70.2 ; median length 

 of nasals, 22.5 ; palatal length, 53.5 ; facial length, 65.8 ; length of upper 

 molar series, 34.2; length of mandible, 97.1; length of lower molar 

 series, 41.1. Ex type British Museum. 



This is a large monkey, with long fluffy loose hairs of a rich 

 coloring, the back especially appearing a rich orange, growing paler 

 on the legs, while the arms retain the olive gray and tawny hue of the 

 heed and upper back. The type was alive in the Zoological Gardens of 

 London and was always ranged with the short-tailed Macaques, but 

 after its death it was discovered that the tail had been cut below the 



