THE BED OR ASIATIC OBANG-OTJTANG. 137 



their great timidity and awkwardness of progression 

 On a comparatively flat surface. The first we shall 

 mention, is a new species from the continent of 

 India. 



THE HOOLOCK. 



Hylobates hoolock HAUL AN. 



PLATE III. 



Siiti hoolock, Harlan, Transactions of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society, Volume iv. N. S. Page 52. 



THIS curious species was first noticed by a well- 

 known American naturalist, and is figured in the 

 work above quoted ; it wants the callosities on the 

 hips, and from its nearer approach in proportions to the 

 orangs, would take precedence in our system of the 

 other Gibbons. 



It is a native of the Garrow Hills, in the vicinity of 

 Goalpara, in British India. The first description of 

 it is by Dr Harlan, taken from living specimens and 

 interesting letters which accompanied them, and de- 

 tailed what had been observed regarding them in a 

 wild state. A specimen has lately been added to the 

 Museum of Edinburgh, which has served for our illus- 



