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According to M. Rey, the captain of a French merchantman, who 

 visited that country in 1819-20, these animals are there called Venam, 

 which signifies Men of the Woods. It does not appear that M. Rey had any 

 difficulty in killing numbers of them, though he experienced much in obtain- 

 ing living specimens. So numerous were they, that, on one occasion, in the 

 course of a few hours, a hundred were slaughtered. Desirous, however, of 

 procuring living specimens of this animal with the intention of taking them 

 to France, it was with great difficulty that he succeeded ; and, in the attempt, 

 many of them fell ; and still as more were wounded, more collected 

 around the dead and dying, endeavouring to carry them off into the woods. 

 Three young ones were ultimately captured, which held so fast round 

 the bodies of their dams, that it required no small effort to detach them. 

 M. Rey remarks, that this species of Monkey greatly resembles the 

 Orang-outan in stature and inoffensive manners, inhabiting the mountains 

 and the tops of the loftiest trees, and living on fruit. The similarity, he 

 adds, of this creature to Man is strikingly mortifying. Its fur, he 

 describes as being exceedingly fine : with regard to colouring, he says, 

 the hands and feet are black ; the shoulders and legs, deep red ; the 

 belly, white ; and the back, grey ; the face is flat, and of a white colour ; 

 the cheeks, red ; and the eyes large and black. Some of the males 

 measured, when standing upright, above four feet four inches in height. 



THE ENTELLUS MONKEY, OR HOONUMAN. 



SEMNOPITHECVS ENTELLUS. (SemnopUhecus Entellus, F. CUVIER, Mamm. lith. fig. 

 juv. et adult. 1820, 1825.) 



Rollewai WOLF, Residence at Ceylon, edit. Berlin. 1782 (?) 



Rollewai and Wanderoo .... THUNBERG, Travels, edit. Upsal. 1793. 



Simla Entellus DUFRESNE, Mag. Encyclop. torn. iv. 1797; et Bull. Soc. 



Philom. 1797. 



Simia Entellus AUDEBKRT, Singes. Fam iv. Sect. ii. pi. 2. 1797. 



Cercopithecus Entellus GEOFFROY, Ann. du Mus. xix. 1812. 



Cercopithecus Entellus KUHL, Beitr. 1820. 



Cercopithecus Entellus DESMAREST, Mamm. p. 59. 1820. 



Simia Entellus FISCHER, Synops. Mamm. p. 15. 1829. 



SemnopUhecus Entellus LESSON, Species des Mamm. p. 56. 1840. 1 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. General colour, straw yellow, more or less inclined to ashy grey ; 



superciliary hairs black ; hands and feet washed with black. 

 LOCALITIES. India and the adjacent islands. 



DESCRIPTION. The fur is moderate in length, soft, but not 

 very full; the hair of the head radiates from a centre, and the super- 

 ciliary bristles which project forward, are thickly set, long, and black ; 

 the general colour is ashy grey, with a tinge of straw-yellow, passing 

 into dull yellowish on the whiskers, occupying the sides of the face ; 

 the under parts of the body are of a dingy white, with more or less of a 

 straw tint. In young individuals, the hands and feet are washed with 



