SIMIAD^E. 433 



that of other specimens which have been noticed. The face is black ; the 

 arms, hands, and feet, together with the lower part of the back, and a line 

 between the shoulders to the occiput, are of a greyish hue ; an obscure 

 greyish-white stripe runs over the eyes ; the ears are hidden by the full 

 whiskers, which, together with the chest, abdomen, and inner parts of 

 the limbs, are brownish black ; the toes of the feet were carefully 

 examined, and found to be all free. 



Fruits of various kinds, bread, lettuces, and eggs, compose the diet 

 upon which the animal is fed: she is said to be partial to blades of 

 grass also, which she will pick and eat with avidity. 



THE WHITE-HANDED GIBBON. 



HYLOBATES LAR. 



Grand Gibbon BUFFON, xiv. p. 92, c. fig. fern. t. i. 1766. 



Homo Lar LINNJEUS, Mantiss. Plant. Append, p. 521 1771. 



Simla longimana SCHREBER, Saugth. p. 66, pi. 2. fig. 1. 1775-9. 



Simla longimana, Grand et Petit Gibbon, ERXLEBEN, Regn. An. p. 10. 1777. 



Simla Lar LINN^IUS, Syst. Ed. Gmelin. 1788. 



Le Gibbon AUDEBERT, Fam. i. 2. fig. 3. 1797. 



Pithecus Lar GEOFFROY, in Ann. du Mus. xix. 1812. 



Pithecus Lar DESMAREST, Mamm. 1820. 



Simla albimana VIGORS and HORSEFIELD, Zool. Journal, iv. p. 107. 1828. 



Simla Lar FISCHER, Syn. Mamm. 1829. 



Hylobates Lar LESSON, Species des Mamm. 1840. 



Petit Gibbon BUFFON, xiv. c. fig. 3. 1766. 



, Simla Lar, /3 LJNNJEUS, Syst. Ed. Gmelin. 1788. 



Pithecus variegatus GEOFFROY, Ann. du Mus. xix. p. 88. 1812. 



Pithecus variegatus KUHL, Beitr. 1820. 



Pithecus variegatus DESMAREST, Mamm. 1820. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. Fur soft and woolly ; colour brown, or black brown ; superciliary 

 stripe ; circle round face ; hands and feet white, or yellowish white ; the first and 

 second finger of foot sometimes united at the base. 



LOCALITIES. Malacca, Siam. 



DESCRIPTION. Description of an adult female, in the Musee du Roi, 

 Paris, brought from Java by M. Diard. Hair of hands and feet close 

 and stiff; the hands, to just above the wrist-joint, and the feet, including 

 the ankle-joint, are abruptly white ; a decided white superciliary line ; the 

 circle round the eyes is naked and brown ; the rest of the face and the 

 nose are sparingly covered with white hairs, which increase in length and 

 thickness along the sides of the face, forming whiskers, so that, looking 

 in front, the whole face appears encircled by a white border ; the fur 

 of the head, body, and limbs, is full, long, soft, and of a deep umber, or 

 blackish brown, paler on the back ; soles and palms black. 



ft. in. 



Length from vertex to callosities 15 



Ditto hip-joint to heel 1 If 



Ditto top of shoulder to wrist 16 



A second specimen, in the same Museum, is similar to the preceding. 



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