1872.] DR. J. MURIE ON MACACUS CYCLOIMS. 7/1 



sieurs fois anneles de brua et de roux-clair, par 1' extreme brievete 

 de sa queue," &c. 



Dr. Anderson's recent articles, then, as I infer, contain an elaborate 

 justification of the exterior characters, dental and osteological points, 

 of Geoffrey's species, amplified by what is patent in the Society's living 

 specimens. I am compelled, therefore, to sink M. brunneus as a 

 synonym. 



It behoves me to remark that Dr. Anderson's two papers otherwise 

 are most useful. They prove that the geographical distribution of 

 this Monkey is wider than might have been anticipated. 



His anatomical notes include descriptions of the tongue, hyoid 

 pouch, and internal viscera, all good in their way. Other data also 

 hitherto unrecorded are on the male generative organs and the tail- 

 structures. The peculiar form of the penis, and the fact of its con- 

 taining a fair-sized bone, are not essentially restricted to this species. 

 As I shall show in another paper, the Japanese Monkey (or Brilliant 

 Macaque), M. speciosus, a form closely allied to the M. arctoides, has 

 male organs almost identical in pattern. As to the terminal vertebrae 

 of the tail, and the habit of its sitting on the latter appendage, I leave 

 my comparisons and remarks till treating of the M. speciosus. I am 

 not prepared, however, to accept in toto his explanation, or Lord 

 Monboddo's theory. 



Seeing that the common name of Brown Monkey is no longer ap- 

 plicable, and the original appellation of St.-Hilaire, "Macaque ursin," 

 anglicized into Bear Macaque, is in a measure defective, I propose 

 another cognomen, viz. that of Belanger's Monkey. 



7. Observations on the Macaques. — III. The Formosan or 

 Round-faced Monkey. By Dr. James Murie, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., &c. 



[Received June 4, 1872.] 



Mr. Swinhoe of late years has done much towards the elucidation of 

 the Chinese fauna ; and this Society has on many occasions been in- 

 debted to him for rare live specimens. Among others of interest was 

 the How-tsze, or Kaou, a Formosan Rhesus-like Monkey, described 

 and figured by him (P. Z. S. 1862, p. 353, pi. xiii.) under the title 

 of Macacus cyclopis. 



The native names given by Mr. Swinhoe recall to me two articles, 

 " On the Monkeys known to the Chinese, from the Native Authori- 

 ties," by Mr. Samuel Birch, of the British Museum, and published in 

 ' Charlesworth's Magazine' for 1839-40*. The articles refer to some 

 of the old pictorial encyclopaedias of the Chinese ; and, as Mr. Birch 

 observes, " the fabulous and the true, imagination and observation, 

 are alike blended in a disorder startling to a European eye"f. 



* Mag. of Nat. Hist. vol. iii. new scr. 1830, p. 587, and vol. iv. p. 35. 

 + Ibid. vol. iii. p. 592. 



