478 QUADRUMANA. 



THE BUDENG, OR MOOR MONKEY. 



SEMNOPITHECUS MAURUS. 



Middle-sized Black Monkey . . EDWARDS, Gleanings, pi. 311. 1750 (?). 



Simia maura SCHREBER, Saugth i. pi. 22, B. 1775 (?). 



Cercopithecus maurus ERXLEBEN, Syst. Regn. An. 1777. 



Simia maura LINNJEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. Gmelin. 1788. 



Guenon negre BUFFON, Hist. Nat. Suppl. vii. p. 83. 1789. 



Negro Monkey PENNANT, Synops. 1771, et Quadruped. 1793. 



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



Cercopithecus maurus DESMAREST, Mamm. p. 55. 1820. 



Tchincou F. CUVIER, Mamm. lith. fig. Nov. 1822. 



Budeng of Javanese HORSEFIELD, Zool. Research, c. fig. 1824. 



Simia maura et S. Edwardsii . FISCHER, Synops. p. 15. 1829. 

 Semnopithecus maurus .... LESSON, Species des Mamm. p. 63. 1840. 

 Cercopithecus Afer LATREILLE, in Buff. Hist. Nat. xxxvi. (?) 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. General colour black ; fur long and silky, the hairs diverging 



from the vertex and concealing the ears. 

 LOCALITY. Java. 



DESCRIPTION. In an adult specimen (No. 20, Catalogue, Mamm., 

 1838) in the museum of the Zoological Society, London, the general 

 colour is deep black, with a decided silvery grey patch on the under 

 surface of the tail at its root ; the hairs of the head radiate from a centre, 

 and those on the sides of the head and face are long and bushy, com- 

 pletely overhanging the ears ; the fur is full, soft, long, and glossy ; 

 the face is flat ; the length of the head and body is twenty inches ; the tail 

 is imperfect. 



In the Museum at Paris is an adult specimen apparently identical 

 with this species, of which the following is a description : 



The hair on the forehead is reverted forward ; that on the sides of 

 the cheeks is very full ; on the body, the fur falls down over the sides ; 

 the general colour is black, grizzled about the face, on the shoulders and 

 thighs, and also toward the end of the tail ; but there is no white spot 

 at the root of the latter, beneath. 



ft. in. 



Length of head and body 18 



Ditto tail 22 



In two middle-aged specimens, of a uniform black, agreeing in form, 

 no white is perceptible at the root of the tail, nor yet in a nursling, which 

 is also black, with the tail rusty beneath, and at the tip. In a young 

 specimen (No. 20, in Catalogue, 1838) in the museum of the Zoological 

 Society, there is no white spot at the root of the tail, but only a few grey 

 hairs. On the head the hair radiates, that of the forehead being directed 

 forward ; and there is no crest : on the sides of the face the hair is full, 

 long, and bushy, obscuring the ears ; the fur is full and soft ; the colour 

 is glossy black ; length, eighteen inches ; tail, twenty-two inches and a 

 half. Were it not for the absence of a peaked vertical crest, the adults 

 of this species might be confounded with the S. cristatus (Simia cristata, 

 Raffles), from which, however, it appears to be quite distinct. With 



