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Malabar Coast. It also occurs in the northern part of Ceylon. 

 We have no authentic information recorded of its extension to the 

 Deccan and Southern Mahratta country, and we cannot be certain 

 whether the species recorded by Mr. W. Elliot and Colonel Sykes, 

 are Entellus or Priamus or Anchises ?" 



Andj at page 8, No. 4, of Presbytis Johnii. 

 " The Malabar Langoor. 



Description. " Above, dusky brown-slightly paling on the sides ; 

 crown, occiput, sides of head and beard, fulvous, darkest on the 

 crown ; limbs and tail, dark-brown, almost black ; beneath, 

 yellowish white. Not quite so large as Entellus. 



This monkey is found on the Malabar Coast, from about N. L. 

 14 or 15 to Cape Cormorin, that is to say, in the provinces of 

 South Canara, Malabar, Cochin and Travancore. Horsfield, in his 

 catalogue, states it to have been found near Madras, and also in 

 the interior of the peninsula. This is certainly erroneous, and I do 

 not believe that it extends beyond the limit of the forests of Mala- 

 bar. It does not ascend the mountains to any great height above 

 the sea, and I never saw it above 1,200 or 1,300 feet on the various 

 passes that I have traversed. It certainly does not occur on the 

 wooded tableland of the Wynaad. It is not confined to the forests, 

 but frequents gardens and the belt of cultivated wooded land that 

 extends all along the sea coast of Malabar. 



I am convinced that Greoffroy described our monkey, which 

 indeed he procured at Mahi, only five miles from Tellicherry, where, 

 as I know, it abounds. It varies a good deal in the intensity of its 

 color, and especially in the blackness of its limbs and tail, and the 

 young are throughout of a sooty brown." 



And, at page 8, No. 5, he writes of 



" Presbytis jubatus. 

 The Neilgherry Langoor. 



Description. " Of a dark glossy black throughout, except the 

 head and nape, which are reddish-brown, the hair very long ; in old 

 individuals, a greyish patch on the rump. Length of one, head 

 and body, 26 inches ; tail, 30 ; but larger individuals are seen, 

 though it does not attain the size of Entellus. 



