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thing else in the world, coming quite below the lowest point of the 

 chin, shaped like a pear except for a furrow down the middle and 

 a contracted septum, which causes the organ to terminate in two 

 points. It is broadest at the middle of the free portion instead of 

 at the base. 



Nothing could be more unnatural than the noses of all the 

 stuffed proboscis monkeys I have yet seen in museums. They do 

 not even suggest the natural form or size of the organ. The pict- 

 ures of the animal sin against nature in the same fashion, and, in 

 order to set Nasalis right before the world and vindicate his nasal 

 character, I fixed my best specimen on a branch in a natux'al atti- 

 tude, and drew a picture of him, to scale, a copy of which is sub- 

 mitted in the accompanjang engi-aving. 



The proboscis monkey, which, by the way, is found only in 

 Borneo, is a large animal and of striking appearance both in form 

 and color. Its face is cinnamon brown, and its body conspicuously 

 marked with reddish brown and white, the tails of old specimens, 

 being white as snow. Taken altogether, Nasalis larvatus is, to the 

 hunter-naturahst, a very interesting object of pursuit, and were he 

 not partially ecHpsed by the orang he would be the most famous 

 quadrumane in the East Indies. 



I tried six different times, on as many days, to get a shot at the 

 family of wah-wahs which called to us daily from the summit of 

 Gunong Popook, but the mountain was so steep and the tree-tops 

 so thick that I did not even get a shot. At last I gave it up as a 

 bad job, and determined to reserve my efforts for the Sibuyau, 

 where they were said to be plentiful. Dundang, who followed me 

 up the Simujan in order to hunt for me, killed one fine large speci- 

 men during my stay at the lake, but where he shot it I could not 

 quite understand. He also killed more proboscis monkeys for me, 

 a wild pig, two small orangs, and a few other animals. Black mon- 

 keys [S. femoralis) were numerous within two hundred yards of the 

 house, and Perara succeeded in killing several, which was about all 

 he did kiH 



Wild hogs were so plentiful in the jungle that the Dyaks had 

 built a pole fence four feet high around three sides of their 

 clearing to protect their crop of rice. Both Mr. Houghton and 

 Eng Quee had assured me they had seen wild pigs which stood 

 thirty-six, and even forty, inches high at the shoulders, their great 

 height being due to the unusual length of their legs, developed in 

 the animal's struggle for existence in low, swampy forest 



