NOTES 



ON 



JERDOFS MAMMALS OF INDIA. 



No. 1. Presbytis Entellus. 



JERDON, No. 1, PAGE 4 ; LUNGOOR OR HOONOOMAN, MONKEY. 

 Jerdon gives an excellent description of these monkeys when 

 he says at page 3, that their bodies are " comparatively slender, 

 " and the Germans call them slim apes. Their long and slender 

 " limbs, long tail, and the black face with an eye-brow of long 

 " stiff black hairs pointing forwards, distinguish the Lungoors 

 " from all other monkeys." Most travellers and all sportsmen in 

 India are more or less acquainted with some of the varieties of 

 these large and handsome monkeys which, standing very high on 

 the legs, with bodies 30, and tails 43, inches in length, attaining 

 (vide page 4 of Jerdon) a still larger size and in height and 

 figure resembling greyhounds more than the baboons and apes 

 generally seen in menageries and with showmen, are to be seen 

 in most forests and, in Upper and Central India, in the planta- 

 tions, groves, or gardens close to most villages and temples ; but 

 those who have not watched them when alarmed or excited, or 

 who have only seen them in confinement as melancholy-looking 

 prisoners, or when, made insolent by the reverence paid to them 

 by pious Hindoos, they lounge in indolent familiarity and perfect 

 impunity about gardens, grain stores and temples, can hardly 

 realize their wonderful power and grace in jumping. All sports- 

 men must like Jerdon " have seen them cross from tree to tree, 

 " a space of 20 to 30 feet wide, with perhaps 40 to 50 feet in 

 " descent and alight in safety on the branch they sought." I think 

 that I have seen even more astonishing and bolder springs made by 

 them from one rock to another. But although it is not easy to 



