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colour ; body beautifully variegated with different coloured 

 hair ; neck with a bluish purple collar ; top of head and body 

 grey ; breast and belly yellow ; arms white below and black 

 above ; tail white ; hands black ; face and ears red ; lips 

 black, and round each eye there is a black ring. When stand- 

 ing erect this species measures nearly four feet. 



Inhabits Cochin China and Madagascar, and ^by the in- 

 habitants of the latter is called Sifac. 



Simla uemaia Gm. Sys. Nat. 34. Pygathrix ncmaeus. Geoff. 

 Ann. Mus. xix. 90. Le Douc, Buff. xiv. 298. Cochin China 

 Monkey, Pen. Quad. 211. Shaw, vol. 1. j^. 56. 



Genus Semnopithecus. F. Cuvier. 



Incisoi'S 5J canines \ ^, molars § h — 32. Fascial angle 45" ; 

 head round; nosejlat; ears moderate ; limbs very long ; thumbs 

 of anterior hands very short and remote; cheek pouches and 

 callosities on the buttocks ; tail very long and thin. 



Semnopithecus Albogularis, Sykes. Head rounded and short ; 

 ears very small, nearly rounded, and for the most part con- 

 cealed in the long hair about the head ; eyes deep seated, of a 

 brown ochre colour, and shaded by a continuous arch of long 

 hairs directed forwards ; hair forming a bunch on each cheek 

 and resembling whiskers ; no beard. The whole of the upper 

 surface of the animal of a mingled black and yellowish ochre 

 colour, each hair being banded black and ochre ; the black 

 prevailing on the shoulders, the ochre on the back and flanks; 

 under surface grizzled white and black ; anterior limbs uniform 

 black ; posterior black with a little of the dorsal colour ; chin 

 and throat pure white ; tail black, half as long' as the body; 

 eheek pouches rudimentary ; thumbs of anterior hands short 

 and distinct, those of the posterior long. 



Inhabits Madagascar. 



Obs. Col. Sykes who described this animal, said, It was obtained at 

 Bombay, where it was believed to have been taken from Madagascar ; 

 and as it had some characters ia common with the Cercopitheci (especially 

 with the group of which the Cere. Subaus forms a part) and the Scmnopi- 

 /Aeci of India, he remarked that it might ultimately prove to be a con- 

 necting link between the African and Asiatic monkeys. It wants the 

 long limbs of the Setnnopitheci ; and although its tail is very long, it is 

 not particularly thin Col. Sykes referred it provisionally to the Sevi^ 

 nopitlieci, until by an examination of its posterior molars its real station 

 in the sytseni should be deterniined. 



