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along the tail, becoming almost black ; the tail terminates ina bright 
ferruginous tuft. This monkey is noted for its docility, and in Bencoolen 
13 trained to be useful as well as amusing. According to Sir Stamford 
Raffles it is taught to climb the cocoa palms for the fruit for its master, 
and to select only those that are ripe. 
No. 21. INuUS ze/ MACACUS LEONINUS. 
The Long-haired Fig-tailed Monkey. 
HABITAT .—Arracan. 
Description.—A thick-set powerful animal, with a broad, rather 
flattened head above, and a moderately short, well clad, up-turned tail, 
about one-third the length of the body and head; the female smaller. 
—Anderson. 
Face fleshy brown; whitish round the eyes and on the forehead ; eye- 
brows brownish, a narrow reddish line running out from the external 
angle of the eye. The upper surface of the head is densely covered 
with short dark fur, yellowish brown, broadly tipped with black ; the hair 
radiating from the vertex ; on and around the ear the hair is pale grey ; 
above the external orbital angle and on the sides of the face the hair is 
dense and directed backwards, pale greyish, obscurely annulated with 
dusky brown, and this is prolonged downwards to the middle of the 
throat. On the shoulders, back of the neck, and upper part of the 
thighs, the hairs are very long, fully three inches in the first-mentioned 
localities; the basal halves greyish; and the remainder ringed with 
eleven bands of dark brown and orange; thetips being dark. The 
middle and small of the back is almost black, the shorter hair there 
being wholly dark ; and this colour is prolonged on the tail, which is 
tufted. The hair on the chest is annulated, but paler than on the 
shoulders, and it is especially dense on the lower part. The lower halves. 
of the limbs are also well clad with annulated fur, like their outsides, but 
their upper halves internally and the belly are only sparsely covered 
with long brownish grey plain hairs, not ringed. 
The female differs from the male in the absence of the black on the 
head and back, and in the hair of the under parts being brownish grey, 
without annulations. The shoulders somewhat brighter than the rest of 
the fur, which is yellowish olive; greyish olive on outside of limbs; 
dusky on upper surface of hands and feet; and black on upper surface 
of tail. : 
SizE.—Length of male, head and body 23 inches; tail, without hair, 
8 inches ; with hair ro inches. 
The above description is taken from Dr. Anderson’s account, ‘ Anat. 
and Zool. Res.,’ where at page 54 will be found a plate of the skull show- 
