G28 DR. J. ANDERSON ON A NEW MONKEY. [Nov. 7, 



and very much rounded, the outer rectrices being more than an inch 

 and a half shorter than the middle. The total length of the skin of 

 the female was I0| inches, of the wing 6. 



The following extracts were read from a letter addressed to the 

 Secretary by Dr. J. Anderson, F.Z.S., Director of the Indian Mu- 

 seum, Calcutta, dated June 1 7th, 1871: — 



" I have received a specimen of a short-tailed Macacus from 

 Bhamo unlike any Monkey I know, but more allied to M. nemestri- 

 nus than to M. leoninus. It is a hill Monkey. I first became ac- 

 quainted with the species in the hills to the east of Bhamo and 

 obtained a specimen, which I sent down to Bhamo to wait my return 

 from Yunan. When I got back to Bhamo I was told that the 

 Monkey had died and had been buried. About a year and a half 

 after my visit to Bhamo a Mr. Stewart, from Rangoon, visited it 

 and brought away the specimen that is now in my possession, and 

 which exactly resembles the specimen I sent to Bhamo from the 

 Kakyen hills — so much so, indeed, that I am inclined to the belief 

 that my lost pet has been restored to me. The following is its de- 

 scription : — 



" Macacus brunneus, sp. nov. 



" Body short and stout ; head rather large ; limbs short, stout, 

 and powerful ; hands and fingers short, the latter rather fidl and 

 much like those of Simla. The fingers are very sparsely clad, co- 

 vered on their flesh-coloured upper surfaces with a few longish 

 greyish-yellow hairs, which are more numerous on the toes. The 

 terminal phalanges of each extremity are nude. The face is reddish 

 flesh-coloured, the tint being most intense round about the eyes. 

 The centre of the upper eyelid transversely has a bluish tint, the 

 remainder being red. The muzzle is short, moderately pointed, and 

 abruptly truncated. The lips are moderately full, and the chin is 

 rather bulging. The nose is but slightly prominent, and marked at 

 its apex by a vertical, longitudinal fine groove. The eyes are large 

 and soft in expression, as in Simla satyrus. The face is much wrin- 

 kled transversely. Ear rather large, with an almost rounded outline, 

 but with a small rather pointed projection posteriorly at the junction 

 of the posterior and superior margins; it is quite nude on its poste- 

 rior surface, and with only a few straggling greyish-yellow hairs on 

 its outer aspect. Fur long, thick, and woolly, longest on the back 

 {2— inches), shoulders, limbs, and shortest and most dense on the 

 sacral region. Chin and throat almost bare. Hair sparse on the 

 chest and abdomen. A single flesh-coloured callosity below the tail 

 triangular in form, the apex of the triangle being placed downwards ; 

 greatest transverse breadth 2 inches, greatest length 2 inches. The 

 hair on the head is parted longitudinally down the centre on the 

 anterior half of the head above the bridge of the nose, the hair 

 being directed outwards on either side. General colour dark brown, 

 darkest on the head, rump, and arms, paler on the sides of the 



