2 CATALOGUE. 



Genus HYLOBATES, Illiger, Prodromus Syst. Mamm. 1811. 

 SIMI.E Species, Linn, et al. 



2. HYLOBATES HOOLOCK, Harlan Sp. 



Simla Hoolock, Harlan, Trans, of the Amer. Phil. Soc. IV. 

 New Series, p. 52. 1830. 



Hylobates Scyritus, Ogilby, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1837, and 

 in Monkeys, #<?. p. I. p. 170. 1838. 



Hylobates Hoolock, Martin, Quadrumana, 438. McClel- 

 land, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 148. 



HOOLOOK, of the natives of Eastern India. 



GOLOCK, DE VISMES, and other French Naturalists. 



HAB. The Garrow and Kassiah hills, and the valley of Assam ; 

 also Aracan. 



A. B. C. presented by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



Dr. Burrough, of Philadelphia, who supplied the specimens from 

 which Dr. Harlan's description was made (which he obtained during a 

 residence in Assam, near the Garrow Hills, from Captain Alexander 

 Davidson, of the Hon. E. I. Company's service, who was stationed at 

 Goolpara, on the Burhampooter river), gives the most copious account 

 of the habits of this Monkey hitherto made public ; among other par- 

 ticulars, he states, " An adult male, with long canine teeth, became so 

 tame and manageable, in less than a month, that he would take hold 

 of my hand and walk with me. He would come at my call, and seat 

 himself in a chair by my side at the breakfast-table, and help himself 

 to an egg or wing of a chicken from my plate, without endangering 

 any of my table furniture. In temper he was remarkably pacific, and 

 seemed, as I thought, often glad to have an opportunity of testifying 

 his affection and attachment for me. When I visited him in the 

 morning, he would commence a loud and shrill whoo-whoo, whoo- 

 whoo, which he would often keep up from five to ten minutes, with an 

 occasional intermission for the purpose of taking a full respiration ; 

 until finally, apparently quite exhausted, he would lie down, and allow 

 me to comb his head and brush the long hair on his arms. When I 

 attempted to go away, he would catch hold of my arm or coat-tail, 

 and pull me back again, to renew my little attentions to him." 



This Monkey is also described and figured by Dr. Francis (Bucha- 

 nan) Hamilton, in his MS. Catalogue of the Mammalia he observed in 

 India. He states, " This animal is common in the forests on the left of 

 the Brahmaputra." The native name is Hulluk or Ullu. On the habits 



