948 CAPT. T. HUITON ON THE GEOGRAnilCAL [Nov. 28, 



This dearly shows that the animal cannot hear even so slight a 

 change of climate northward as Muttra and Bindrabiui, and that it 

 is certainly not indigenous in the neighbourhood ; it accounts like- 

 wise for the difficulty of preserving the animal alive for any time in 

 Europe. 



These facts might be allowed to settle the question of range ; for 

 it is certain that the Entellus does not voluntarily cross the Jumna, 

 or the Ganges, and therefore cannot wander uj) to the Himalaya 

 mountains — besides that it could not live in such a climate, being 

 seldom able even to round the Cape of Good Hope, and never long 

 surviving its arrival in Europe. 



The itinerant showmen from Meerutt declare that the Entellus 

 may be seen at present in small parties between that place and Delhi, 

 and that there are a few at Agra ; but then, at the same time, they 

 candidly acknowledge that the animal has been recently introduced 

 there by fakirs and devotees. 



In the extensive province of Oudh, stretching far along the left 

 bank of the Ganges, the Entellus does not occur indigenous. This 

 I have ascertained from several natives of that country, who declare 

 that, if ever seen, it is near some temple where the fakirs have intro- 

 duced them. One man informed me that, when lie was quite a boy, 

 he once saw one of these animals which was supposed to have crossed 

 the Ganges accidentally on some boat or uprooted tree, the animal's 

 advent being regarded by the natives as au auspicious event, and 

 crowds assembling to see and to salaam to it. Tliis a])pears to prove 

 that the left bank of the Ganges is not the natural habitcnt of the 

 species, since no notice would have been taken of the arrival of a 

 single solitary individual had the sjiecics been common in the pro- 

 vince. The long-tailed monkeys sometimes seen in the Nipal Terai 

 are nothing more than the llimalayan Lungoor, a totally distinct 

 species, known as Semtiopithecus schistaceus ; and, indeed, another 

 native of Oudh informs me that, while the common Bunder is abun- 

 dant throughout the province, the Entellus does not occur there, and 

 that the long-tailed monkey sometimes seen in the Nipal Terai, or 

 forest at the foot of the mountains, was the Hill Lungoor, and the 

 only one of the genus to be met with. 



There is, again, good reason to think that much of the confusion 

 which prevails in regard to the geographical range of the species may 

 have arisen from the fact that many of the natives have got into a 

 liabit of applying the name of Hoouoomaun to the common Rhesus, 

 which actually does extend from Bengal, not exactly into the Hima- 

 laya, but up to the outer or southern boundary of the Dehra Doon, 

 at perhaps a distance from the mountains of twenty-five to thirty 

 miles. 



In the Punjab, again, the Entellus does not occur; and I am 

 inclined to restrict its range, somewhat loosely perhaps, to between 

 10° and 2.5'' of north latitude, and 7i>° to 88° of east longitude, 

 forming with the line drawn across the country from Allahabad to 

 Boondee, a triangular range entirely south of the Rivers Jumna and 

 Ganges. It does not, therefore, approacli the foot of the Southern 



