398 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
preposterous distance; usually, however, it is quite still, and, 
flattening itself up against the wall, quietly remains there for 
a week together without moving. In jumping it extends its 
broad webbed feet so as to make its descent somewhat of a 
swoop. 
The only other reptile I can think of, worthy of notice, is the 
Monitor Lizard, which grows to a very large size. I obtained 
one of eight feet. These brutes are very destructive to chickens, 
and hardly a day passes without a ‘“hullaballoo” in some one’s 
chicken-yard. They never show fight, but take a tremendous 
lot of killing. Dogs think them rather “fun”—good things 
to practise on—but they rarely give a run, as they usually 
make their approach from some pile of wood or other good 
description of cover. They are diurnal; so that, what with 
Musangs and Civets at night and Monitor Lizards by day, 
chicken-keepers learn a good deal more practical Zoology than 
they at all desire to do. 
I am not sure whether I have found a new species of Monkey 
or not, and should be glad to know if there is only one species of 
Proboscis Monkey (S. nasalis) known, or two.* I have one very 
distinct from it. In ‘Cassell’s Natural History’ I read of the 
Variegated Monkey (S. nemeus)—“ They yield to the researches of 
the anatomist the same internal arrangement of the cavities of 
the stomach which has been noticed in the Long-nosed Monkey.” 
In its markings the one I got exactly resembled the picture 
given of S. nemeus, but it had a nose as large as S. nasalis ; it 
was three feet eight inches high, about as big as the smaller 
species of Orang-utan, strongly built, and with a determined 
expression on it; while S. nasalis is a weak-jointed feeble-looking 
creature. I got this specimen on the island of Balhalla, just 
outside the Bay; and if there was one there, it may be reasonably 
presumed there are more. 
* There are said to be five species of the genus Semnopithecus in Borneo, 
but we are not aware that more than one of these (S. nasalis) has the 
remarkably elongated proboscis.—ED, 
