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PART II. 



WHEN commencing these notes I determined not to attempt any 

 descriptions of the animals I wrote about : for, as stated at page 

 52, I fancied that all men who care for Indian Natural History 

 would certainly have Jerdon's book, on which my notes have been 

 grafted, or that they would know enough abowt any animal here 

 mentioned to make this unnecessary ; but as a friend, in whose 

 opinion I have great confidence, thinks that I should describe those 

 now brought to notice ; I shall extract Jerdon's descriptions of 

 such as may not be generally known ; or regarding which there 

 may be a doubt. 



The Entellus monkeys or Langoors, of which three, if not 

 five, varieties must be more or less known to our Madras sports- 

 men, who may however not have been able to distinguish the 

 species of each individual they have met with. 



Page 1, No. 1, Presbytis Entellus. 

 Langoor or Hunumdn, Monkey. 



Jerdon mentions five species of this genus, which may be knovm 

 to Madras sportsmen. Of the first, " Presbytis Entellus, The 

 Bengal Langoor" he writes at page 4, as follows : 



Description. " The general hue of this species is a pale dirty or 

 ashy stramineous, darker (in some) on the shoulders, rump, and 

 sides of the limbs, and paler on the head and lower parts ; entire 

 hands and feet conspicuously black ; no trace of a crest of hairs 

 on the vertex. 



Length of a male, 30 inches to root of tail, which was 43 inches ; 

 but it attains a still larger size. 



This is the common Langoor or Hunuman of Bengal and Cen- 

 tral India. Buchanan Hamilton says, that it is not found north of 

 the Ganges, and that even south of that river it is rare in certain 

 parts that would appear suitable for it, as at Rajmahal. Mr. Blyth 

 states that, he has never seen it wild cast of the Hooghly, but that 

 it extends up the] right bank of that river and the Ganges, and 

 thence to Cuttack and Central India, It is uncertain how far it 



