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impetus, and then launches itself forward, repeatedly clearing in suc- 

 cession, without effort and without fatigue, spaces of forty feet. Mr. 

 Martin (Quadrumana, p. 429) gives many interesting details of the 

 history and habits of an individual of this species which lived some time 

 in the menagerie of the Zoological Society of London. 



Genus SEMNOPITHECUS, Fred. Cuv. et al 



SIMI.E Species, Linn, et al. PRESBYTES, Eschscholtz. 



4. SEMNOPITHECUS ENTELLUS, Dufresne Sp. 

 Simia entellus, Dufresne, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1797. 

 Semnopithecus entellus, Fred. Cuv. et Geoffr., Mamm. 



lithog.fasc. 47. 



Simia entellus, Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 14. 

 HANUMAN of the Hindus. MAKUR of the Mahrattas. 

 HAB. The entire of India, from the Himalayas to Cape Co- 

 morin. 



A. adult. Griffith's Collection. 



B. nearly adult, and C. young. Presented by the Asiatic 



Society of Bengal. 



The adult specimens in the Company's Museum have the usual colour 

 of the animal, being ash-gray on the upper parts, darker on the shoulders 

 and rump, grayish-brown on the tail, the hands slightly shaded with 

 black. In the younger specimens the colour is stramineous or dingy - 

 isabella, with a deeper tint of black on the hands. The intensity of the 

 black colour of the hands varies considerably in different subjects at all 

 ages. Above the eyebrows is a superciliary ridge of stiff black bristles 

 projecting forwards, which, however, is a character observed in all species 

 of Semnopithecus. 



The external character of the Semnopitheci generally is concisely and 

 appropriately given by Mr. E. T. Bennett, in " The Gardens and Me- 

 nagerie of the Zoological Society/' p. 83, in the following words : 

 " Their bodies are slightly made ; their limbs long and slender ; their 

 tails of great length, considerably exceeding that of the body ; their 

 callosities of small size, and their cheek-pouches, in those species which 

 appear to possess them, so inconsiderable, as scarcely to deserve the 

 name." From Cercopithecus they are strikingly distinguished by the 

 form of the last molar tooth in the lower jaw, which, instead of four, 

 has five tubercles. The peculiar structure of the stomach in this genus 

 has been described and illustrated by M. Otto and by Prof. Owen. 



The Hanuman is found throughout the whole of India, from the 

 Himalayas to Cape Comorin, and in some parts in great abundance. 



