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proportion to its height and strength, and its ferocity great, so that 

 it is a terror to the natives. Cuvier says he has seen it expire 

 from the violence of its fury. 



Semnopitliecus, (Gr. o-e/uvos, Semnos, to be reverenced ; nlOyxog, 

 pithccos, Ape.) 



This genus includes animals resembling, in many points, the 

 Gibbons. As in the latter, their extremities are of great length as 

 compared with the size of the body, which in its form is long 

 and slender. But they differ from the Gibbons in having the j 

 hinder extremities longer than the front ones, which is the reverse 

 of what occurs in the Gibbons. They are distinguished by hav- 

 ing a very long, slender and muscular tail, terminated by a close 

 tuft of long hairs. The color of the adult animal is intensely 

 black, except the breast, the abdomen, and the root of the tail, 

 which are gray. The black hairs on the top of the head are 

 tipped with gray, and as age advances, the latter color is extended 

 to the upper parts of the body. The hair is long, soft, and silky. 

 The eye-brows consist of long stiff hairs, pointing forward. 

 The stomach is three fold, one of the divisions being puckered 

 into a number of distinct sacs; and its teeth resemble, in some 

 degree, those of a ruminating animal. It evinces less restless- 

 ness, petulance and curiosity, but has more of real intelligence 

 than the common monkeys. The animals of this genus are 

 found in Cochin China, the East Indies and the neighboring 

 islands. 



S. Maurus. (Gr. fiavgog, mauros, a fool ?) The BUDENG. 



This species abounds in the extensive forests of Java, and 

 forms its dwelling on trees. Troops of more than fifty individ- 

 uals are found together. When approached, they scream loudly, 

 and by their movements branches of decaying trees are often 

 thrown down upon the spectators. The natives chase them on ' 

 account of their fur ; attended by their chiefs, attacking them 

 with stones and cudgels, and often destroying them in great num- 

 bers. The furs of these animals are used both by the natives 

 and Europeans, in preparing riding equipages and military 

 ornaments. 



S. Entellus. (Lat. the proper name of a Roman athlete.) 

 THE ENTELLUS, OR COCHIN CHINA MONKEY. The HOONUMAN 

 of the Hindoos. 



This species is one of the most common in Hindoostan and the 

 Indian Archipelago, and in India is the object of a blind adora- 

 tion. According to the popular superstition, he who puts to 

 death an Entellus Monkey, will surely die within the year. Its 

 form is slight, the limbs long and slender, the length of the body 



