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mixed with rum and water, cold but sweet, which the animal drank with 
relish, and remained unhutt. 
The same experiment was tried with one of another genus (/zwus 
rhesus), who rejected the poisoned fruit at once, and on having 
strychnine in solution poured down his throat, died. 
The Zangur was then tried with cyanide of potassium, which he 
rejected at once, but on being forced to take a few grains, was-dead in 
a few seconds. 
Although we may not sympathize with those who practise such cruel 
experiments as these above alluded to, the facts elucidated are worth 
recording, and tend to prove the peculiar herbivorous nature of this 
genus, which, in common with other strictly herbivorous animals, 
instinctively knows what to choose and what to avoid, and can partake, 
without danger, of some of the most virulent vegetable poisons. It is 
possible that in the forests they eat the fruit of the St-ychnos nux-vomica, 
which is also the favourite food of the pied hornbill (A%ydrocissa 
coronata). 
No. 4. SEMNOPITHECUS ve/ PRESBYTES ENTELLUS. 
The Bengal Langur ( Jerdon’s No. 1). 
NativE Names.—Langur, Hanuman, Hindi; Wanur and Makur, 
Mahratti ; A/usya, Canarese. 
HasitTat.—Bengal and Central India. 
DESCRIPTION.—Pale dirty or ashy grey ; darker on the shoulders and 
rump ; greyish-brown on the tail; paler on the head and lower parts ; 
hands and feet black. 
Sizze.—Length of male thirty inches to root of tail; tail forty-three 
inches. 
The Zv/zellus monkey is in some parts of India deemed sacred, 
and is permitted by the Hindus to plunder their grain-shops with im- 
punity ; but I think that with increasing hard times the Hanwmans are 
not allowed such freedom as they used to have, and in most parts of 
India I have been in they are considered an unmitigated nuisance, 
and the people have implored the aid of Europeans to get rid of 
their tormentors. In the forest the Zangur lives on grain, fruit, the 
pods of leguminous trees, and young buds and leaves. Sir Emerson 
Tennent notices the fondness of an allied species for the flowers of the 
red hibiscus (Z. vosa sinensis). The female has usually only one 
young one, though sometimes twins. The very young babies have not 
black but light-coloured faces, which darken afterwards. I have always 
found them most difficult to rear, requiring almost as much atten- 
tion asa human baby. Their diet and hours of feeding must be as 
systematically arranged ; and if cow’s milk be given it must be freely 
diluted with water—two-thirds to one-third milk when very young, and 
