396 THE LONG-NOSED MONKEY. 



In the male, the nose is a curved tubular trunk, large, 

 pendulous, and fleshy ; but in the female, it is smaller, 

 recurved, and not caruncular. In the latter, moreover, 

 the organ is grooved in the middle line, and ends in a 

 sharp point, from which it slopes abruptly to the upper 

 lip, forming a truncate surface, in which are placed the 

 nostrils. The eyes are small, and not much sunken ; the 

 pupil is large and circular, and the iris of a bright yellow- 

 ish brown. The following description of the colours of an 

 adult female seems to differ in some particulars from that 

 generally given. The hair on the frontal region was of 

 a deep chesnut colour, inclining to red ; the shoulders and 

 outer part of the upper arm red ; inner part dirty white ; 

 throat breast and belly white ; hair long, soft and silky ; 

 fore-arms, legs, and inner surface of thighs dirty grey, in 

 some parts inclining to silvery ; hairs on the back thick 

 and soft, and resembling in colour the fur of an old hare ; 

 on the sides, loins, and outsides of the thighs, it inclines 

 to rufous ; over the lumbar region is a triangular grey 

 patch, and the tail also is grey, inclining to whitish 

 towards the tip ; the naked skin of the face, when the 

 animal is alive, is a bright red brick-dust colour, but 

 after death, is a pale dirty pink. The palms are black. 

 Wormb says its cry resembles " Kahau," which name it 

 very frequently goes by. They do not, however, hold their 

 nose when they leap, nor do they seem to be particularly 

 gregarious. 



On our return from this pirate hunt, we visited the 

 village of Bunting, and walked about admiring the 

 native ingenuity of the Dyak forges, the bellows of which 

 are formed of two hollow cylinders, with feather-suckers 



