700 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATVRAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXIIL 



1888. Macacus cynomolguSj'BlBxdovdi, Mammalia No. 9. 



^1, Victoria Island; $1, Bankachon ; (5*1, Mergui ;c?3, $9, 

 Tenasserim; c5' 5, $ 3, Thaget ; S 2, Banlaw. 



This Macaque is not strikingly different from the common "Bengal 

 Monkey " except in its far longer tail, which is scarcely shorter than the 

 combined head and body, while in the Indian Monkey it is less than | that 

 length. In size the two are identical. 



Blanford recognises that " cyno7nolgos " oi Linnaeus is a totally different 

 animal but retained the name for convenience, which is of course inadmissi- 

 ble. He includes in his synonymy the name i7-us proposed by F, Cuvier in 

 1818. Bonhote dealt with the matter in 1903 (Fascic. Malay 1, p. 4) and 

 showed that irus was based on a Senegal Monkey and that the earliest 

 name for the Malay-Tenasserim long tailed Macaque is fascicularis of 

 Raffles. Later Dr. Elliot in his Review of the Primates, 1913, p. 229, 

 revives irus as a name for a Burma-Malay Macaque 'with black feet' (a 

 character originally postulated by Ouvier) but, though some specimens 

 seem to have somewhat darker feet, I have found no Oriental Macaque with 

 black feet in the National Collection. I have therefore followed Bonhote, 

 Miller, &c., in adopting the name fascicularis. This monkey seems to vary a 

 good deal in colouring, but these variations would seem to be individual 

 and perhaps even seasonal. These variations account for the names 

 carbonarius and aureus in the synonymy given above. 



'' Although extremely plentiful where it occurs, this species is here 

 entirely confined to the neighbourhood of Mangrove Swamps along the 

 Sea-shore, and the banks of rivers. Its chief habitat is along the edges of 

 tidal creeks where at low tide it feeds on molluscs, crustaceans and other 

 marine animals. It was so local round Victoria Point that, although 

 swarming along the banks of the Pakchan River, it was not once seen near 

 Bankachon only a few miles away from the River. 



Weight.— ?, lOilbs. 



Vernacular name. — Kra (Malay, Bankachon.) " — G. C, S. 



(3) PiTHECUS ADUSTUS, Mill. 



77*6 Malay piy -tailed Monkey, 



1888. Macacus nemestrinus, Blanford, Mammalia No. 8. 



1906. Macaca adusta, Miller, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIX, p. 559. 

 (^3, $4, Bankachon. 



About the size of, or rather smaller than, the ' Bengal Monkey ' but more 

 stoutly built. Dark brown in colour. In nemestrinus from Sumatra there 

 is a broad black stripe down the centre of the back which is obsolescent or 

 entirely wanting in the Malay animal. 



Miller distinguished adustus (Type locality Ohampang, Tenasserim) from 

 neynestrinus, which was named by Linnseus from Sumatra, by the almost 

 complete absence of the dorsal black stripe and by the black annulations 

 present on the hairs of the back. There are also skull differences and the 

 male canines are less developed than in nemestrinus. 



" Plentiful, although not to the same degree as H. lar and P. obscurus. 

 Like other Macaques, this species is very variable in size, and there is also 

 a considerable difference in size between the sexes. During life the eye 

 orbits in adults are bluish. Gregarious, and when occurring in numbers 

 around villages it is said to be very destructive among rice fields. The 

 cheek pouches of most of the specimens obtained were full of rice. This 

 species is very often seen in confinement. 



Weight.- J, 18 lbs.; $ , lOJ lbs. 



Vernacular names. — Bkuh, Brtth-tajSTa (Malay, Bankachon). " — G. 0. S. 



