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hair on the under part, which gives that a lighter 

 shade; and the blue skin of the upper part shining 

 through the hairs takes oft' their black appearance. 

 The ears and face are naked, excepting the lips, 

 which are covered with a few white hairs, passing 

 into a sort of tuft at the angles of the mouth. It is 

 understood that the young are of a yellowish-brown 

 colour, pale or sand-coloured on the under part, and 

 thus it is possible that the last-mentioned one may 

 be this specie?, at an intermediate age between the 

 brown of the young and the black of the old one. 

 The naked skin of the paws is black and very soft ; 

 the callosities are of the same colour ; the irides are 

 yellow, a colour which very generally indicates a noc- 

 turnal habit in animals possessing it, as any one may 

 observe by comparing the eyes of the fox with those 

 of a dog. This is an animal of considerable size, 

 being two feet long in the head and body, and two 

 feet and a half in the tail, and standing fifteen inches 

 at the shoulder, and eighteen at the crupper. 



Nestor Monkey (5. nestor). This has not, we 

 believe, been found anywhere in the living stale, at 

 least so as to be recorded, though a specimen is in 

 the museum of the Zoological Society. Its perfect 

 analogy to the others leaves little doubt that it be- 

 longs to the oriental Archipelago, the grand home 

 of this division of the monkeys ; and from its small 

 size, and broken colours, it is not impossible that it 

 may be one of those already mentioned in an early 

 stage of its existence. The following is the description 

 of it, as given in the report of the society's proceed- 

 ings : " Length of the body and head sixteen inches, 

 of the tail twenty. The prevailing colour is a deep 

 grey with a slight tinge of brown, becoming paler on 

 the back of the neck and on the head, where the 

 fuscous tinge is much more marked. On the loins 

 the deep grey passes into a pure light grey, which is 

 continued on the hinder part of the thighs and along 

 the tail ; the tail becomes gradually light in colour, 

 and is for several inches at the tip all white. In 

 passing down the limbs the prevailing grey becomes 

 gradually darker, the colour of the hands being nearly 

 black. 'The under parts are somewhat lighter than 

 the upper, particularly about the throat. Passing 

 upwards from the throat, the colour becomes much 

 lighter, owing to a great proportion of the lower part 

 of the hairs being exposed. Hence the lips, the chin, 

 and the whiskers, are nearly pure white, the tips of 

 the latter, which are prolonged backwards, being 

 alone grey. Over the eyes is the ridge of stiff black 

 hairs which is usually met with in the Semnopitheci. 

 The hairs are of moderate length, measuring about 

 an inch and a half. The moderate length of the hairs, 

 the somewhat light colour, and especially the white 

 of the lower part of the sides of the face, distinguish 

 the species from S. leucoprymnns. It may be as- 

 sumed to be a native of India ; but the dealer of 

 whom it was purchased knew not whence it was 

 obtained. 



The Cochin-china Monkey, or Douc (S. ncmasus). 

 This monkey differs so much from the typical semno- 

 pitheci, that Illiger formed it into a separate genus, 

 under the name of Lasiopiga, or hairy buttocks, from 

 the circumstance of its not having naked callosities 

 on those parts of the body like the rest of the section. 

 In its appearance it is perhaps the most singular of 

 the whole monkey race, and seems as if it were 

 clothed with a suit of garments of different materials, 

 something like a fantastically-dressed human being. 



The face is purplish, except a line along the under 

 part of the chin, which is white. The naked part of 

 the face extends in nearly straight lines from the 

 chin by the angles of the mouth to a little behind and 

 above the eyes ; and without-side this the sides of 

 the head are covered with long sand-coloured hairs, 

 thickly set and reflected backwards, resembling whis- 

 kers of vast size. Across the forehead there is a 

 chaplet of black, and the fingers and thumbs, which 

 are covered with hair down to the nails, are of the 

 same colour. There is a brownish gorget on the upper 

 part of the breast, extending back nearly to the ridge 

 of the neck. The body and arms, as far as the elbow 

 joints, is grey, darker on the shoulders, and deficient 

 of hair on the belly. This grey portion extends for- 

 wards to the black chaplet on the forehead, and it 

 terminates a little above the insertion of the tail, so 

 as to have something of the appearance of a close 

 round jacket with short sleeves. The fore arms and 

 hands down to the division of the fingers are yellowish 

 white, with a sort of rosy or reddish brown in it, not 

 unlike the colour of the flesh of some of the eastern 

 nations of the human race. The lower part of the 

 rump and the tail are nearly (he same colour, but 

 more inclining to pale reddish bay. The thighs are 

 grey, but with a purplish or brownish tinge, forming 

 a contrast with the grey on the body, and consisting 

 of longer and more shaggy hairs. This colour barely 

 reaches the knee-joints, and does not join the grey 

 on the back, the light bay red there extending 

 nearly from flank to flank, and the posterior part of 

 the colour on the thighs terminating in a darker 

 margin, as if it were a fold. Thus the colouring of 

 this part of the animal has a considerable resemblance 

 to a pair of breeches, somewhat scanty in longitude 

 at both ends, and not girded up in the most seemly 

 guise at their sacral termination. The legs are purple 

 brown, paler in the tint, and not containing so much 

 grey as the thighs ; they thus have a slight resem- 

 blance to a pair of stockings. The divided part of 

 the hind feet is black, which finishes the fancied 

 resemblance to a human costume, by making the 

 animal appear to be slipshod. Some idea of this 

 animal, in its form, if not in the peculiarities of its 

 colouring, may be formed from the following cut. 



We believe that this species was first known in 

 Europe from an imperfect specimen brought from 

 Cochin-China, which was the cause of its being named 

 after that country. It occurs, however, in the islands 



