462 QUADRUMANA. 



dusky black, but this is not always the case in adults, which have a 

 paler colouring altogether than the young, often verging upon dingy 

 white, tinted with straw colour ; the face is black, with a slight 

 violet hue. 



ft. in. 



Length of adult male, from head to root of tail 22 



Ditto tail to end of hairs (which run into a sort of pencil, 



but do not form a tuft) ....... 3 1 



Although Thunberg described this species, in his Travels in Europe, 

 Asia, and Africa (Upsal, 1793), as a native of Ceylon, under the country 

 appellation of Rollewai, confounding it, at least as regards the name, 

 with the Wanderoo ; still, our first real knowledge of the animal is due 

 to M. Dufresne, who published a description of it from a skin in his 

 possession, under the title of Simia Entellus ; which skin was the original 

 of Audebert's figure, in the Hut. des Singes et des Makis. From the 

 time in which M. Dufresne's description appeared (in Bull. Soc. Philom. 

 1797), till the year 1820, nothing farther was added to our information. 

 The arrival of a young male at Paris, in that year, enabled Fred. 

 Cuvier to give an original figure of it from the life ; subsequently 

 (1825), the drawing of an adult, sent home by M. Duvaucel, served as 

 the copy of an aditional, and very characteristic representation. 



GENERAL HISTORY. In England, the first living example on record 

 was that which existed in the year 1829, in the gardens of the Zoological 

 Society of London, and from which the excellent portrait was taken, 

 which heads the description of the Entellus in the Gardens and Menagerie 

 delineated. Since that period, several individuals have, from time to 

 time, enriched the menagerie of the Zoological Society ; none, however, 

 have long survived their arrival ; the humidity and changes of our 

 atmosphere speedily inducing disease, or hastening its career. It was 

 from the dissection of one which died in 1833, that Professor Owen 

 ascertained the condition of the stomach in this species, as already 

 intimated ; and, subsequently, the Author of this work has dissected 

 others. Till within the last few years, the museums of England and 

 Continental Europe could scarcely muster, among them, more than two 

 or three specimens ; indeed, the only preserved specimen in the British 

 Islands, till the year 1829, was one of a young individual in the museum 

 of the Zoological Society. At present there are four excellent specimens 

 in this museum (Nos. 11, 11 a, 11 6, 11 c, of Catalogue, 1838), besides 

 others not exhibited. Specimens are, also, in the British Museum, and in 

 that of the East India Company. Four specimens, also, are exhibited in the 

 Museum at Paris. 



In a catalogue of the Mammalia of Dukhun, by Colonel Sykes, pub- 

 lished in the Proceedings Zoo L Soc. for 1831, p. 99, the Entellus is stated 



