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Columbian Museum at Chicago some years ago, a 

 mounted group of Nasalis, shown as robbing a wood- 

 pecker's nest and tearing the mother-bird to pieces ; 

 it is to be hoped that this "zoological inexactitude" 

 has by now been rectified. The animal does not flourish 

 in captivity, as it is difficult to obtain the proper food 

 in sufficient quantity. Captain Stanley Flower, Director 

 of the Ghizeh Zoological Gardens at Cairo managed to 

 keep a young male alive for some months, but even 

 this moderate success has not been repeated [Note 3, 

 p. 312]. The cry of the adult male is a sort of snorting 

 bark, and in the production of it the large fleshy nose 

 undoubtedly plays a part. 



The species of Semnopithecus are all timid, gentle 

 creatures, very unlike the boisterous and easily tamed 

 Macaques. They are much more arboreal than the 

 Macaques, and they feed entirely on leaves, fruits, and 

 flowers. A specimen of S. cristatus that I kept for some 

 time as a pet throve fairly well on a diet of Hibiscus 

 flowers ; this is a pretty grey species with the native 

 onomatopoeic name of Bigit. S. femoralis, a black 

 species, and S. rubicundus, a russet-coloured species, 

 are fairly common, and go about in small troops of 

 seven or eight. There are several other species, but 

 attention need only be called to S. hosei, a handsome 

 black-and-white monkey, from which are obtained the 

 bezoar stones or gall-concretions so highly prized by 

 the Chinese for their medicinal qualities. 



The Lemurs are represented in Borneo by two species 

 Nycticebus tardigradus and Tarsius spectrum. The former 

 of these, the Slow Loris, is a small arboreal animal with 

 no tail and large eyes. In disposition they are very 

 surly, and I never succeeded in taming them, though I 



