MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 339 



No. XXVII.— DECOYING- A MONKEY. 



Yesterday about 10 a.m. a large male Langur Hanuman Monkey, {Semno- 

 pithecus entellus) paid a surprise visit to my compound, and it occurred to me 

 that it would be interesting to see whether we could succeed in decoying him 

 by means of two stuffed specimens of the same species which are in my pos- 

 session. These specimens were mounted by Eowland Ward some years ago 

 and are still exceedingly life-like, so I placed one of them on the branch of a 

 large tree and the other on the grass, close by, and then retired into the 

 house to watch the result. 



Within a few minutes the monkey approached the stuffed dummy in the 

 tree, touched it on the shoulder and then withdrew his hand quickly. He 

 looked rather surprised and the expression of his face was most amusing. 

 He then sat down in front of the dummy and leaning forward rubbed his 

 nose against its face. He again withdrew a little, being evidently greatly as- 

 tonished at the marked coldness with which his friendly advances were 

 received. After a few minutes he descended from the tree and approaching 

 the other stuffed specimen was going through the same pantomime when one 

 of my tame chita cubs which are kept in an enclosure, close by, sprang over 

 the bamboo palings and charged at the performers. The big monkey was 

 high up in a tree before the chita was well over the paling, but when he saw 

 dummy being knocked over, he worked himself up into a fearful state of 

 rage and excitement, shaking the branches violently and uttering harsh cribs ; 

 in fact at one time he appeared to be on the point of coming down to the 

 rescue, but I ran forward and took the young chita away. I afterwards 

 removed this dummy and put it up in the tree near the other one and within 

 a short time the live monkey was seen quietly sitting beside these unsym- 

 pathetic companions. 



G. S. EODON, Majob. 

 Dhakwak, 1st September, 1897. 



OBITUARY. 

 Dr. J. C. Lisboa. 



A member of this Society and frequent contributor to these pages, passed 

 over to the majority, at Poona, on 1st May, 1897, aged 75. One of the early 

 disciples at the Grant Medical College, Bombay, Dr. Lisboa had a long and 

 successful career in Medicine, and having retired from practice occupied his 

 well-earned leisure in botanical investigation. He made grasses a special 

 subject of study and with the assistance and sympathy of his amiable and 

 accomplished wife, acquired a truly remarkable knowledge of the structure 

 and affinities of that very difficult group of plants. It is much regretted that 

 his health began to break down soon after he had decided to publish a list of 

 the Bombay Grasses which is at present in the press. In private life he was 

 all that good men wish to be, and his loss is widely deplored. 

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