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Specimens of a large, dark Macaque in the British Museum Col- 

 lection from north and south Luzon, exact locality not stated, I refer to 

 this species as they answer Dr. Mearns' description very well. It 

 would therefore appear that the species is distributed throughout the 

 length of the Archipelago. 



Mr. O. Thomas (1. c.) considers that the Simia syrichta Linn., 

 Syst. Nat., 1758, p. 29, No. 21, must be the present species because 

 of the locality given "Luzonum insulis." Neither Petiver's figure nor 

 Linnaeus' description indicate in any degree whatever that P. philip- 

 FiNENSis is the species had in mind when Linnaeus bestowed the name 

 upon a Philippine monkey. If there was only one Macaque in those 

 islands it might then be very properly decided that the name syrichta 

 should be given to it, but as there are several Macaques in the Philip- 

 pines, and neighboring islands, and our knowledge of their distribution 

 in the Archipelago is extremely limited, it is quite impossible to 

 determine which one it was that Linnaeus called syrichta. Much stress 

 cannot be placed upon the locality "Luzon" for that island contained 

 the port from which most of the commodities shipped to Europe came, 

 and although the example figured by Petiver and which we may con- 

 fidently believe Linnaeus never saw, has "Luzon" given as its habitat, 

 it may only have been shipped from that island, and really been a native 

 of another belonging to the Archipelago. However this may be, it is 

 quite certain that there is nothing either in Petiver's figure, or in 

 Linnaeus' description, that would enable any one in the remotest degree 

 to recognize the Macacus philippinensis E. Geoflf. Therefore as 

 Linnaeus' description is utterly useless for the identification of any 

 species of Macaque, and Petiver's figure is worse, it does not seem 

 wise to endeavor to apply Linnaeus' proposed name and thus leave 

 the question always in doubt, especially when the types of philip- 

 pinensis and palpebrosus E. Geoff., are in the Paris Museum, and 

 there is no question as to the species thus named. It would seem to be 

 far better to embrace a certainty, than to adopt a doubt, which would 

 leave the question always a subject for argument, with no possibility 

 of ever arriving at a satisfactory decision. Linnaeus' syrichta is there- 

 fore considered as undeterminable, and syrichta Thomas, (nee 

 Linnaeus), is made a synonym of E. Geoflfroy's species. 



PiTHECUS philippinensis apoensis (Mcams). 



Cynomolgos ( !) mindanensis apoensis Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., XXVIII, 1905, p. 429. 

 Type locality. Mount Apo, Island of Mindanao, Philippine 



