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look at one standing erect about 10 feet away, and considered it 

 too large for a ffylobates, as its height was about 4 feet. It was, 

 in front, of a deep ferruginous colour, and as it moved away it 

 was distinctly seen to be tailless. Mr. Davison does not remember 

 the colour of the back, but thinks it was the same as that of the 

 underparts. He had only a half-charge of the smallest shot in 

 his gun, so did not fire, and he never saw any of these animals 

 again. 



Captain Bingham informs me that a specimen was brought to 

 him in the flesh (but unfortunately so decomposed that only the 

 skeleton could be preserved) of a tailless female Ape, with long 

 grizzled red hair on the outside of the limbs, and standing about 

 3 feet 6 inches high. This was near the place, Muleyit, where the 

 animals above mentioned were seen by Mr. Davison. The skeleton 

 was subsequently lost or mislaid. The same observer once saw a 

 party of four or five large tailless monkeys at the foot of Muleyit, 

 but these appeared to be black in colour. None of the animals 

 resembled Gibbons. 



Both Mr. Davison and Captain Bingham are excellent observers. 

 The only known animal corresponding with their descriptions is 

 the Ourang-outang, but so well-known a form would have been 

 recognized by others. It is perhaps more probable that the 

 animal seen may have been a tailless, or nearly tailless, Macacus. 



Family GERCOPITHECID^. 



This family comprises all the Old-World Apes, Monkeys, and 

 Baboons, with the exception of the anthropoid Apes. It is divided 

 into two subfamilies, both represented in India. 



Cheek-pouches present, stomach simple, tail 



variable CercopitJiecince. 



]S"o cheek-pouches, stomach sacculated, tail 



always long Semnopiihecince. 



Subfamily CERCOPITHECIN^]. 



In this subfamily are included not only all the common Indian 

 Monkeys except those belonging to the Hanuman or Langur group, 

 but also the closely allied African forms belonging to the genera 

 Cercopiihecus and Gercocebus. The African Baboons (Cynocephalus), 

 distinguished by having the nostrils quite at the end of the muzzle, 

 are also included by many writers. 



By Blyth, Jerdon, and others, the short-tailed Indian Monkeys 

 were classed in the genus Inuus, the long-tailed Macaques in 

 Macacus. But the type of Lacepede's original genus Macaca* 



* Mem. de 1'Inst. iii. p. 490 (1801). 



