18 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
The young are of a sooty brown, ornearly black, without any indica- 
tion of the light-coloured hood of the adult. 
No. 8. SEMNOPITHECUS zve/ FRESBYTES JUBATUS. 
The Nilgheri Langur ( Jerdon’s No. 5). 
Hapsitat.—The Nilgheri Hills, the Animallies, Pulneys, the Wynaad, © 
and all the higher parts of the range of the Ghats as low as Travancore. 
DeEscrIPTION.—Dark glossy black throughout, except head and nape, 
which are reddish brown ; hair very long; in old individuals a greyish 
patch on the rump.—/erdon. 
SizE.—Length of head and body, 26 inches ; tail, 30. 
This monkey does not, as a rule, descend lower than 2,500 to 3,000 
feet; it is shy and wary. The fur is fine and glossy, and is much 
prized (Jerdon). Its flesh is excellent food for dogs (McMaster). 
Dr. Anderson makes this synonymous with the last. 
No. 9. SEMNOPITHECUS veJ PRESBYTES PILEATUS. 
The Capped Langur, 
Hapirat.—Assam, Chittagong, Tipperah. 
DeEscrRIPTION.—General colour dark ashy grey, with a slight ferru- 
ginous tint ; darker near head and on shoulders ; underneath and on 
the inside of the limbs pale yellowish, with a darker shade of orange or 
golden yellow on the breast and belly. The crown of the head is 
densely covered “with bristly hairs, regularly disposed and some- 
what elongated on the vertex so as to resemble a cap, whence the 
name. Along the forehead is a superciliary crest of long black bristles, 
directed outwardly ; whiskers full and down to the chin: behind the 
ears is a small tuft of white hairs; the tail is long, one third longer 
than the body, darker near the end, and tufted; fingers and toes 
black. 
SizE.—A little smaller than P. entedlus. 
This monkey is found in Northern Assam, Tipperah and southwards 
to Tenasserim ; in Blyth’s ‘ Catalogue of the Mammals of Burmah’ it is 
mentioned as P. chrysogaster (Semnopithecus potenziani of Bonaparte and 
Peters). He writes of it: “ Females and young have the_lower parts 
white, or but faintly tinted with ferruginous, and the rest of the coat 
is of a pure grey; the face black, and there is nocrest, but the hairs 
of the crown are so disposed as to appear like a small flat cap laid 
upon the top of the head. The old males seem always to be of a deep 
rust-colour on the cheeks, lower parts, and more or less on the outer 
