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whitish gray. The skin was originally mounted and has been exposed 

 in the case for over half a century, and it is probable that the accumu- 

 lated dust during that length of time has darkened the colors con- 

 siderably. Another of Hodgson's specimens also marked M. oinops 

 is blackish brown throughout without any orange coloring. It is 

 very evident that these examples have not assumed the adult pelage, 

 only one exhibiting a change to the coloring of P. rhesus, and the 

 probability is they are of that species. Anderson figures a skull of 

 Hodgson's oinops as the type, and states there was no skin, but the 

 two skulls recorded as types now in the Museum have the skins also, 

 and are examples, as I have shown, not in mature dress. 



The name erythraa has been applied to this species as 'Schreber 

 pi. VHL' As shown by Blanford, (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1887, p. 

 625), no plate with that number or any other with the name Simia 

 erythraa was ever published by Schreber. If it had been it would have 

 antedated rhesus Audebert, published in 1797. There is no such 

 plate in vol. I, 1775, nor in the additional plates belonging to that 

 volume, in vol. Ill, p. 590, 1778, nor in vol. IV, p. 636, 1792. The first 

 appearance of such a plate is in Wagner's Supplement I, 1840, pi. 

 VIIIc. Schreber's original plate VIII, was the Mandrill, Papio 

 Sphinx (Linn.). The earliest use of the name Simia erythraa was 

 by Shaw, Gen. Zool., I, 1800, p. 33, and the reference given is "Schreb. 

 Suppl." without number of plate or page. Dr. Blanford's theory is 

 that a plate "was probably distributed to a few naturalists, but not 

 issued in such a way as to give validity to the title." ( !) 



This is the common Macaque of Northern India, and although 

 Blanford (1. c.) says it is not held sacred by the Hindus, it certainly 

 is venerated by them, and in the temple of Hounuman, the Monkey 

 God at Benares, large numbers of this species are kept and given the 

 freedom of the building and become very bold and impudent. Their 

 numbers increased so greatly at one time in this temple that the 

 government was obliged to interfere, and as their destruction would 

 have been resented by the natives, a compromise was effected, and all 

 but about two hundred were carried into the jungle and set free. 

 Doubtless many found their way back to the more comfortable quarters 

 in the city. When young it is readily tamed and learns easily various 

 tricks. Full of mischief and curiosity it often becomes a nuisance 

 about the towns, and when adult is frequently ill-tempered, even 

 savage. It seeks cultivated tracts and the borders of tanks and 

 streams, and Blanford states that the wild monkeys go in herds often 

 of considerable size, and have but little fear of man, (probably because 



