470 QUADRUMANA. 



THE BLACK -CRESTED MONKEY. 



SEMNOPITHECUS MELALOPHOS. (Semnopithecus melalophos, F. CUVIER, Mamm. lith. 1821, 



Cimepaye F. CUVIER, Mamm. c. fig. tab. vii. 1821. 



Semnopithecus melalophos . . . DESMAREST, Supp. 533. 1822. 



Simla melalophos FISCHER, Synops. Mamm. p. 14. 1829. 



Semnopithecus melalophos . , . LESSON, Species des Mamm. p. 61. 1840. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. Contour, slender ; fur, long and silky ; vertical crest, compressed; 



general colour, fine fulvous red, paler on the under parts ; a frontal stripe, and the 



crest, blackish. 

 LOCALITY. Sumatra. 



DESCRIPTION. Description of an adult male (No. 15, of Catalogue, 

 Mamm., 1838), in the museum of the Zoological Society, London. The con- 

 tour of the body is long and slender ; the head is small ; the fur is long, 

 soft, falling, and glossy ; the head is ornamented with a long, compressed, 

 peaked, vertical crest ; the general tint is a fine, bright, golden rust 

 colour, pure and rich on the limbs, but slightly washed with a dusky 

 tint on the back ; the lower part of the abdomen and the inside of the 

 limbs are straw yellow ; the crest is washed with a fuliginous tint, passing 

 into black at the tip ; a black or blackish line, beginning over the eyes, 

 passes across the temples, and, turning up over each ear, merges into the 

 colour of the crest; the occiput on each side of the crest, and the 

 whiskers, are sandy red ; the skin of the face is dusky blueish ; the 

 palms, soles, and nails are black ; the form of the head and face is as in 

 S. cristatus. 



ft. in. 



Length of head and body 18 



Ditto tail 28 



A specimen examined in the Museum of Paris, differed slightly from 

 the foregoing, in being somewhat more purely and brilliantly coloured. 

 The general hue was deep rich red, without any wash of black on the 

 back ; a semilunar streak, over the temples from the superciliary ridge, 

 was faintly perceptible ; the crest was washed with black ; the throat, 

 abdomen, and inside of limbs were red, a little paler than the back. 



ft. in. 



Length of head and body 17 



Ditto tail 21 



Ditto foot 5| 



In the description of the following species, some remarks will be 

 made relative to a confusion in the nomenclature of the present animal, 

 which, it must be observed, is not the S. melalophos of Sir T. S. Raffles ; 

 his melalophos being, in fact, the S. flavimanus of Isidore Geoffroy. 



GENERAL HISTORY. This beautiful Monkey is said to be extremely 

 active, and to tenant the deep retreats of the forest ; but of its exclusive 

 habits and manners no details have been received. 



