454 QUADRUMANA. 



DESCRIPTION. The nose of this singular Monkey is enormously 

 developed, forming a sort of proboscis, capable of dilatation, with the nasal 

 apertures large, oblong, placed as in Man, and divided from each other by a 

 thin cartilage, continued to the end; along the upper surface of this singular 

 organ runs a longitudinal depression, indicating the division between the two 

 canals ; the ears are small, and these, with the naked face, and the palms and 

 soles, are of a leaden colour, or dusky black, with a slight wash observable 

 in some parts, of reddish yellow ; the eyes are of tolerable size, and at con- 

 siderable distance from each other ; the neck is short, and the throat 

 goitre-like, from the magnitude of the laryngal sac ; on the sides of the 

 face, the neck, and shoulders, the hair is long, compared with that of the 

 rest of the body, which is rather short, or moderate ; the top of the head, 

 the occiput, and the scapular portion of the back, are of a rich chestnut 

 brown ; the sides of the face, and a stripe over the shoulders, are yellow ; 

 the general colour of the body is a fine sandy red ; the rump, the tail, the 

 fore-arms, legs, and feet, are cinereous ; the under parts of the body are of 

 a pale yellow (individuals varying in the intensity and richness of 

 the colouring) ; the tail is somewhat tufted at the tip ; a full beard 

 advances forward, and curls up under the chin, almost to the long nose. 



ft. in. 



Length of the head and body 20 



Ditto tail 24 



It is to be observed that a fine male in the museum of Paris, brought 

 from Borneo, agrees precisely with the preceding description ; and that 

 a male specimen, in the museum of the Zoological Society, London, 

 is, in all respects, ^similar, excepting that its colours are less bright, 

 and that the chin is destitute of a beard. It was obtained in Borneo ; 

 and forms part of the Rafflesian collection (No. 23, in Catalogue, 

 Mamm., 1838). 



In the museum of the Zoological Society of London is a specimen 

 (No. 24, in Catalogue, 1838), forming part of the Rafflesian collection, 

 and stated to have been procured in Borneo, through the medium of a 

 collector acting under the late Sir T. Stamford Raffles, which Messrs. 

 Vigors and Horsefield have regarded as constituting a species distinct from 

 the S. larvatus, and which they have described in the fourth volume of the 

 Zool. Journal (p. 109, cum figura faciei), under the title of Nasalis 

 recurvus, assigning to it, as distinctive characters, the possession of a 

 beard, or tuft, under the chin, and a recurved form of nose ; whence the 

 title, recurvus. 



Now, respecting this specimen, it is to be observed that it is a young 

 female, as is proved by the condition of the bones of the phalanges; 

 in the Paris Museum, a specimen exists exactly agreeing with the one 



