MAMMAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 285 



SiMIA SINIC'A, L, 



The Bonnet Monkey. 



(Synonymy in No. 5.) 



d 1898. Kolar, E. Mysore. 



(iSee also Reports Nos. 6, 6 and 8.) 



" Very plentiful at Kolar. Here, as in many other places, owing to the 

 protection afforded them by the Hindoo villagers, they have practically 

 lost all fear of men, hardly making way for people when in the streets. 

 Large numbers of them live in the towns and villages, where they often do 

 a lot of damage to houses by pulling off the tiles, for which reason the 

 roofs are frequently covered with thorny branches to keep them off ; while 

 they constantly raid shops where food is kept, but apart from this they 

 do not, in a free state, seem to develope the same inquisitive and 

 vicious habits, that caged specimens so often do. It is noticeable that 

 in forest country both this Monkey and the Langur are comparatively 

 much shyer animals. No species of Langur occurs in Eastern Mysore so 

 that I may have crossed the South-Eastern limit of Presbytis hypoleucus T — 

 G. 0. S. 



LORIS LYDBKKEKIANUS, Cabr. 



The Mysore Slender Loris. 



1888. Loris gracilis Blanford. Mammalia No. 27. (Partim) 

 1904. Loris gracilis (typ. var.), Lydekker, P.Z.S. ; p. 345. 

 1908. Loris lori lydekkerianus, Cabrera. Bol. R. S. Espan; Hist. 



Nat. p. 211. 

 6 1899. 9 1900, 1901, 1902. Kolar, East Mysore. 

 c? 1911, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1923. 

 9 1912, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, Malur. 

 6 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980. 9 1976, 1977, Nun- 

 dydroog. 



Vernacular names : — Kada-Papa, Adavi-Papa (Kanarese) ; Wantjr- 

 Manushya ( Marathi) : Arawe-Papa ( Telegu) ; Kattu-Papa, Kattu- 

 PuiLAYE (Tamil) ; Sherminda (Dekhani and Hindustani). 



" Loris tardigradus is not the Nycticebus tardigradus oi the "Mammalia" 

 No. 26, which is the slow Loris of Malaysia, Mr. Thomas has shown in the 

 A.M.N.H. for 1908 (p. 468) and again in the P.Z.S. for 1911 (p. 129) that 

 the name tardigradus was undoubtedly given by Linnseus to the Ceylon 

 Lemuroid. 



Blanford, in common with most systematists of the 19th Century, is in 

 error in following Geoffroy, who in 1796 (Mag . Encycl., Vol. I., p. 48.) 

 transferred the name, without authority, from the long-armed Slender 

 Loris, to the short-armed Slow Loris, and established the name gracilis 

 for the former. The name gracilis, as well as loii, ceylonicus, zeylanicus, all 

 having been given to the Ceylon animal, must rank as synonyms of tar- 

 digradus. 



The earliest name for the Slow Loris, as shown by Stone and Rehn 

 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1902, p. 141) is coucang, Boddaert, 

 (Elench. Anim., p. 67, 1783) with the type locality * Bengal. ' In the same 

 paper they propose to adopt also Boddaert's name Tardigradus ioT Loris, but 

 Palmer has pointed out (Ind. Gen, Mamm. 1904) that that name is preoc- 

 cupied by Brisson for an Edentate. The name Nycticebus coucang, Bodd, 

 must therefore be used for the animal dealt with under No. 26 in the 

 ' Mammalia. ' 



