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the violent bustle and commotion excite* by their 

 movements, branches of decaying trees are r.ot unfre- 

 quently detached, and precipitated on the spectators. 

 They are often chased by the natives for the purpose 

 of obtaining their fur. In these pursuits, which are 

 generally ordered and attended by the chiefs, the ani- 

 mals are attacked with cudgels and stones, and cruelly 

 destroyed in great numbers. The skins are prepared 

 by a simple process, which the natives have acquired 

 from the Europeans, and they conduct it at present 

 with great skill. It affords a fur of a jet black colour, 

 covered with long silky hairs, which is usefully em- 

 ployed both by the natives and the Europeans in pre- 

 paring riding equipages and military decorations. 



" The Budeng, during its young state, feeds on 

 tender leaves of plants and trees ; and when adult 

 on wild fruits of every description, which are found in 

 great abundance in the forests which it inhabits." 



The last animal to be introduced here is one also 

 figured in Dr Horsfield's Java, under the name of 

 Semnopithecus pyrrhus. It is closely allied to the 

 preceding in form and size, but differs in being of a 

 clear reddish-brown, and is given by this distinguished 

 zoologist with some doubt as distinct ; but the differ- 

 ent name by which it is known among the natives, 

 and the permanency of its shades, he thinks, will entitle 

 it to separation. 



We now -ATOC to Frederic Cuvier's second great 



