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to a vegetable diet. ‘‘ The head is round, the face but little produced, 
having a high facial angle.” —/erdon. 
But the fowt ensemble of the Langur is so peculiar that no one who 
has once been told of a long, loosed-limbed, slender monkey with a 
prodigious tail, black face, with overhanging brows of long stiff black 
hair, projecting like a pent-house, would fail to recognise the animal. 
The Hanuman monkey is reverenced by the Hindus. Hanuman was 
the son of Pavana, god of the winds; his strength was enormous, but 
in attempting to seize the sun he was struck by Indra with a thunder- 
bolt which broke his jaw (Zaz), whereupon his father shut himself up 
in a cave, and would not let a breeze cool the earth till the gods had pro- 
mised his son immortality. Hanuman aided Rama in his attack upon 
Ceylon, and by his superhuman strength mountains were torn up and cast 
into the sea, so as to form a bridge of rocks across the Straits of Manar.* 
The species of this genus of monkey abound throughout the Peninsula. 
All Indian sportsmen are familiar with their habits, and have often been 
assisted by them in tracking a tiger. ‘Their loud whoops and immense 
bounds from tree to tree when excited, or the flashing of their white 
teeth as they gibber at their lurking foe, have often told the shikari of 
the whereabouts of the ebject of his search. The Zangurs take 
enormous leaps, twenty-five feet in width, with thirty to forty in a 
drop, and never miss a branch. I have watched them often in the 
Central Indian jungles. Emerson Tennent graphically describes this: 
‘*When disturbed their leaps are prodigious, but generally speaking their 
progress is not made so much by aging as by swinging from branch to 
branch, using their powerful arms alternately, and, when baffled by 
distance, flinging themselves obliquely so as to catch the lower boughs 
of an opposite tree, the momentum acquired by their descent being 
sufficient to cause a rebound of the branch that carries them upwards 
again till they can grasp a higher and more distant one, and thus 
continue their headlong flight.” 
Jerdon’s statement that they can run with great rapidity on all-fours 
is qualified by McMaster, who easily ran down a large male on horse- 
back on getting him out on a plain. 
A correspondent of the Aszan, quoting from the Judian Medical 
Gazette for 1870, states that experiments with one of this genus 
(Presbytes entellus) showed that strychnine has no effect on ZLangurs— 
as much as five grains were given within an hour without effect. e From 
a quarter to half of a grain will kill a dog in from five to ten minutes, 
and even one twenty-fourth of a grain will have a decided tetanic effect 
in human beings of delicate temperament.” —Cooley’s Cyc. Two days 
after ¢ez grains, of strychnine were dissolved in spirits of wine, and 
* The legend, with native picture, is given in Wilkin’s ‘ Hindoo Mythology.’ 
