SIMIAD.E. 489 



Freunde i., p. 25), who gives Tellichery (Malabar) as its locality ; and 

 it is, doubtless, identical with the S. cucullatus of Isidore Geoffrey, 

 whose specimens were obtained in the range of the Ghauts, which extend 

 from Bombay along the whole of the Malabar coast. 



In the Paris Museum a specimen exists, which is here referred, 

 though with some degree of doubt, to the S. Johnii ; as it differs 

 considerably in the general tone of its colouring, from any of the 

 examples of this species hitherto examined. It is an aged female 

 from Malabar, and is accompanied by a nursling, considered to be 

 her own offspring. The fur resembles that of an adult Entellus ; the 

 back is of a fuliginous grey, becoming darker on the shoulders and thighs, 

 and still more so on the arms and legs, where the colour is nearly black ; 

 the hands and feet being quite black : the head, whiskers, and beard, which 

 latter is conspicuous, are of a dirty straw colour, passing insensibly into 

 the hue of the back ; the long eyebrows, and hairs continued from them 

 over the sides of the cheeks, are black, as are also those scattered on the 

 upper lip ; the face is black ; the tail is dark brown, its apical third being 

 much paler ; the inside of the humerus, and of the thighs and the under 

 surface of the body, are of a dusky straw-colour. 



ft. in. 



Length of head and body 20 



Ditto tail 32 



The nursling is covered with close, soft, soot-coloured hairs. 



It has been already stated that, in the Semnopithecus obscurus, the 

 intensity of the general colouring is subject to great variation ; and in the 

 present species such also would appear to be the case ; at least, if this 

 specimen be truly referable to it. 



GENERAL HISTORY. Of the Semnopitheci it unfortunately happens 

 that few species have been studied by naturalists in their native forests. 

 Our knowledge of the habits of the Entellus only, is full and satisfactory ; 

 and this results from its extensive range of habitat, its numbers, and its 

 veneration by the Hindoos, in the districts of India where so many Eu- 

 ropeans reside, and on whose attention it may be said to have forced itself. 

 But the Hooded Monkey, like many others inhabiting the remote forest 

 regions of a wild and mountain country, is only to be seen occasionally, by 

 such persons as venture into the woods in quest of game, and from whom 

 it precipitately retreats. It may, indeed, be chased and shot; but the 

 sportsman or traveller who preserves the skin, and transmits it to Europe, 

 has no information to communicate, besides the locality where the animal 

 was found. The Entellus, on the contrary, in the districts where it is 

 held sacred, emboldened by toleration, instead of seeking remote abodes, 

 throngs around the settled dwellings of man, devastates his gardens and 

 cultivated fields with impunity, and divides with him the possession of the 



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