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feet, playing among fir-trees laden with snow wreaths. On the west 

 side of India they are not found to the north of 14 K latitude. 

 On the east they extend into Arajfiin, and to Borneo and Java, 

 but not apparently into Siam or Cambodja. Along the eastern 

 extension of the Himalayas they again occur in East Thibet ; a 

 remarkable species with a large upturned nose (S. roxellana) 

 having been discovered by Pere David at Moupin (about Lat. 

 32 N.) in the highest forests, where the winters are severe and 

 last for several months, and where the vegetation, and the other 

 forms of animal life, are wholly those of the Palsearctic region. 

 It is very curious that this species should somewhat resemble 

 the young state of the proboscis monkey (8. nasalis), which in- 

 habits one of the most uniform, damp, and hot climates on the 

 globe the river-swamps of Borneo. 



Colobus, the African genus (11 species), is very closely allied 

 to the preceding, differing chiefly in the thumb being absent or 

 rudimentary. They are confined to the tropical regions Abys- 

 sinia on the east, and from the Gambia to Angola and the island 

 of Fernando Po, on the west. 



FAMILY 3. CYNOPITHECID^E. (7 Genera, 6 v l Species). 

 GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. 



This family comprehends all the monkeys with cheek pouches, 

 and the baboons. Some of these have very long tails, some none ; 

 some are dog-faced, others tolerably round-faced ; but there are 

 so many transitions from one to the other, and such a general 

 agreement in structure, that they are now considered to form a 

 very natural family. Their range is more extensive than any 

 other family of Quadrumana, since they not only occur in every 

 part of the Ethiopian and Oriental regions, but enter the Palse- 

 arctic region in the east and west, and the Australian region as 

 far as the islands of Timor and Batchian. The African genera 



