362 Lieut.-Col. 8. R. Tickell on the Gibbon of Tenasserim. 
less readily on its hind legs than the Hoolock, having frequently 
to prop and urge itself along by its knuckles on the ground. In 
sitting it often rests on its elbows, and will lie readily on its back. 
Anger it shows by a fixed steady look, with the mouth held 
open and the lips occasionally retracted to show the canines, 
with which it can bite severely ; but it more usually strikes with 
its long hands, which are at such times held dangling and shaken 
in a ridiculous manner, like a person who has suddenly burnt 
his fingers. It is, on the whole, a gentle peaceable animal, very 
timid, and so wild as not to bear confinement if captured adult. 
The young seldom reach maturity when deprived of hberty. 
They are born generally in the early part of the cold weather, a 
single one at a birth, two being as rare as twins in the human 
race. The young one sticks to its mother’s body for about seven 
months, and then begins gradually to shift for itself. So entirely 
does this animal confine itself to its hands for locomotion about 
the trees, that it holds anything it may have to carry by its hid 
hands or feet. In this way I have seen them scamper off with 
their plunder out of a Karen plantain-garden in the forest. 
I have had many of these animals while young in confinement. 
They were generally feeble, dull, and querulous, sitting huddled 
upon the ground, and seldom or never climbing trees. On the 
smooth surface of a matted floor they would run along on their 
feet and slide on their hands at the same time. By being fed 
solely on plantains or on milk and rice, they were apt to lose 
all their fur, presenting im their nude state a most ridiculous 
appearance. Few recovered from this state; but a change of 
diet, especially allowing them to help themselves to msects, en- 
abled some to come round, resuming their natural covering. 
For the most part they were devoid of those pranks and tricks 
which are exhibited by the young of the Macacus and Inuus, 
though occasionally, and if not tied up, they would gambol about 
with cats, pups, or young monkeys. 
The tawny and the black varieties of the Gibbon appear to mix 
indiscriminately together. The Karens in the Tenasserim pro-. 
vinces consider there is a third variety, which they name 
“ Khay6éo paba,” and the Talains “‘ Woot-o-padyn”’ (blue ape). 
This is probably the party-coloured or mottled phase of the 
animal, which occurs very often to the southward, in Malacca. 
The pale variety is more numerous in the district of Amherst 
than the black one. 
Hylobates Lar extends southward to the Straits, and north- 
ward to the northerly confines of Pegoo (British Burma): 
whether it is found throughout Burma proper or not, I cannot 
ascertain. To the west of the spur dividing British Burma from 
Arakan, and throughout the latter province into the mountains 
