BLACK-CBESTED MONKEY. 



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fur. Several preserved specimens are contained in the 

 honourable East India company's musemn. 



The fur^ like that of the Buheng, is long, delicate, 

 soft, and silky : while the colour in the latter is in- 

 tensely black, in this it is reddish brown, with a beauti- 

 ful golden gloss on the back, head, tail, and extremities, 

 gradually changing into a pale yellowish underneath, 

 where, however, the golden gloss is still preserved : the 

 fur above is long, shaggy, and thick ; but on the under 

 parts it is thin, curled, silky, and of a very delicate tex- 

 ture. 



The Black-crested Monkey. 



Seranopithecus melalopbus, F. Cuvier. Simia melalophus, 

 Raffles. Semipai, of the Javanese. (Fie/. 2.) 



This very singularly formed species was first de- 

 scribed by sir Stamford Raffles * as a native of Suma- 

 tra, where, in the neighbourhood of Bencoolen, it is not 

 unfrequent. We have not yet heard of living specimens 

 having been brought to this country ; but our zoological 

 importations are now so numerous that every month 

 brings some novelty ; while, on the other hand, the 

 coldness and humidity of our climate occasion a constant 

 mortality, in the winter, among those animals which 

 naturally inhabit the tropics. The species before us_, with 

 a few others, is remarkable for the great length of its 

 hinder legs, in comparison to its arms or fore legs; a 



* Trans, of Linn. Society, xiii. 245. 



