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of the tail and lower part of the back, is of a reddish, 

 brown colour. The female is said, by Audibert, to 

 want the light-coloured markings on the back, and to 

 be rather less in size ; the nose and face are of a 

 blackish-brown colour, the nostrils are placed at 

 the extremity, and they can be blown up or swelled 



Nose seen from beneath, from Audibert 



to a considerable size. Messrs Vigors and Horsfield 

 have given the profile of another monkey, brought 

 from the Island of Borneo, in which the nose is 

 scarcely one-third of the length, and is somewhat 

 turned up.* They suspect that this is the young of 

 the proboscis monkey, which, if correct, will show 

 that the elongation is much dependent upon the age 



Zoological Journal, No. XIII. p. 110. 



