CATALOGUE. 21 



21. MAC AC US ASSAMEN8IS, McClelland, Descriptive 



Catalogue of a Zoological Collection made while employed on a 

 Deputation to Assam. Proceed. Zool. Soc. October, 1839, 

 p. 146. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XIII. p. 476. 



Macacus pelops, Hodgs., Journ. As. Soc. Beng. IX. 1213, 



X. 908. 

 HAB. Assam. 



A. From the Deputation to Assam. 



Nearly allied to the rhesus, but sufficiently distinct to entitle it to 

 the rank of a species. " Bluish-gray, with dark brownish on the 

 shoulders ; beneath, light gray ; face, flesh-coloured, but interspersed 

 with a few black hairs; length, two feet and a half; proportions, 

 strong; canine teeth, long, and deeply grooved in front; the last 

 of the cheek-teeth in the upper jaw blunt." (McClelland's MS.) 



Genus GEL AD A, Lesson, Gray. 

 MACACUS, Ruppell et al. 



22. GEL AD A RUPPELLII, Gray, Catalogue of the Mam- 

 malia in the British Museum, p. 9. 



Macacus gelada, Ruppell, Neue Wirbelthiere, SfC. p. 8, 



t. 2. 

 HAB. Abyssinia. 



A. From Sir W. Harris's Zoological Collection during 



his Mission to Abyssinia. 



" The gelada" Dr. Riippell states, " inhabit rocky districts covered 

 with low brushwood, and are found exclusively on the ground. Their 

 food consists of seeds, roots, and bulbous plants, in seeking which they 

 associate in large companies, and frequently commit great devastations 

 in cultivated grounds. I observed the gelada in the mountainous dis- 

 tricts of Haremat, Simen, and by Axum, which are all from seven to 

 eight thousand feet above the level of the ocean. At night they retire 

 into caverns and fissures of the rocks. If attacked, they utter loud 

 cries, resembling a rough kind of barking, but they never defend them- 

 selves against man, as is the custom of the Cynocephalus hamadryas." 

 (Ruppell, Neue Wirbelthiere, p. 7.) 



Genus SILENUS, Lesson, Gray. 



SIMILE species, Linn. MACACUS, Desmar. et al. PAPIO, 

 Ogilby. 



