MAMMAL PURVEY OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 699 



Mr. Shortridge records his special obligation to the following 

 gentlemen : — 



Mr. G. P. Andrew, I.C.S., Dist. Commissioner. 



Mr. C. E. risher, Inspector of Police, "placed the local Police 

 boat at my disposal on many occasions, a very considerable help in 

 a country where there are very few means of transport." 



Mr. E. Lamb, Estate Manager at Maliwun under the Burma 

 Development Syndicate, " put me up and gave me every assist- 

 ance." 



Mr. 0. F. S. Bilbrough, the owner oi Victoria Island, "has pro- 

 mised to help in every possible way when a more exhaustive survey 

 of this Island is undertaken." 



Mr. J. Taylor,, Manager of the Hevea Kubber Estate at Thaget, 

 " gave me every help." 



(Before going on to my detailed report, I would venture to point 

 out that if any of our members resident in these parts could and 

 would obtain more specimens of the Pipistrel obtained by Mr. 

 Shortridge at Maliwun, such would be most valuable.) 



(1) Htlobates lak, L. 

 The White-handed Gibbon. 



1771. Homo lar, Linnaeus, Mantissa, App., p. 521. 



1888. Sylobates lar, Blanford, Mammalia No. 2. 



(517, 2 10, Bankachon; c?l, Tenasserim ; cJl, $2, Thaget. 



H. lar much resembles H. hoolock except for its white hands and feet. 

 Blanford says of its colour " occasionally much variegated ", but in the 

 present series the specimens are either jet black or fulvous, with a darker 

 shade on the back, the latter much predominating. 



" Very plentiful around Victoria Point. Although not avoiding the 

 neighbourhood of habitations. Gibbons hardly ever leave the forests 

 and are probably seldom destructive to ground crops. They are parti- 

 cularly noisy in the early mornings and evenings. The calls of all 

 Gibbons have a certain resemblance to each other, consisting in the case 

 of this species of a series of rapid whoops, ascending and descending 

 through several octaves, rather resembling a siren and are amongst the 

 most striking and musical sounds to be heard in any tropical jungle. They 

 are nearly always gregarious, going about in parties of about a dozen ; 

 where they are numerous, several parties may sometimes mingle together 

 temporarily, but I have never seen flocks of a hundred or more as reported 

 by Blanford. H. lar is excluded in Davison's list of Mammals from Banka- 

 chon." 



Weights.— S , 16f lbs:, $ , 15 lbs. 



Vernacular name — Mawa (Malay, Bankachon). 



(2) PiTHECus FASCicuLARis, Raffies. 



The Crab-eating Monkey. 



1822. SimiaJasciculariH,~R?i^es, Trans. Linn. Soc, XIII, p. 246. 

 1825. Macacus carbonarius, F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm., pi. XXXII. 

 1831. Macacus aicreus, Is. Greo^Toy, Voy. Bel. Zool., p. 58. 



