1899.] MB. STANLEX S. FLOWER OS" THE PEOBOSCIS MONKEY. 785 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE LI. 



Fig. 1. Clay-nodule with skull, pelvis, femur, and otlier bones of Prophaethon 



skruhsolei (tjpe specimen). Natural size. 

 Fig. 2. Occipital surface of skull of Prophaethon shrubsolei. Natural size. 



a.t., antitrochanter. 

 cb.p., cerebellar prominence. 



/., femur. 

 ij).s., interorbital septum. 

 i.o.f., interorbital fenestra. 



il., ilium. 



is., ischium. 



I.S., surface for lachrymal. 

 m.t., mammillary tuberosities. 



11., external nares. 

 li.g., narial groove 

 oc.c, occipital condyle. 



o.p., orbital process of quadrate. 

 p.o.p., postorbital process. 

 pp., paroccipital process. 

 pa., pubis. 



q., quadrate. 



r., ribs. 

 r.h., rostral hinge. 

 s., sacrum. 



sc, scapula. 

 sq., squamosal. 



t., tibio-tarsus. 

 t.f., temporal fossa. 



2. Note on the Proboscis Monkey, Nasalis larvatus ( VVurmb) . 

 By Stanley S, Flower, F.Z.S. 



[Received May 1,0, 1899.] 



An attempt has recently been made to obtaio hving specimens of 

 the Proboscis Mou key, iVasa& larvatus (Wurmb), for the Egyptian 

 Government's Zoological Gardens at Ghizeh. Through the kind 

 intervention of Jonkheer P. J. F. M. Van der Does de Willebois, Agent 

 and Consul-General for the Netherlands in Cairo, five individuals 

 were procured in Borneo and despatched via Singapore for Egypt. 

 Only three reached the Suez Canal alive, and were landed at Port 

 Said in very poor condition, one dying within a few hours of beintr 

 landed. The two survivors were kindly looked after by Sanieh 

 F. Dixon Bey and sent by train to Cairo. They arrived at the 

 Ghizeh Zoological Gardens on the evening of April 4, 1899, an adult 

 female cold and apparently dead, and a young male looking ill and 

 listless. Everything possible was done for them; the female 

 revived for a time under the influence of a warm fire and a dose of 

 gin, but died next morning ; the mule, however, rallied, and after 

 some days got apparently quite well and active, but unfortunately 

 died suddenly on May 4, 1899, having been just one month in the 

 Gardens. 



I send sketches of the profiles of these two animals (figs. 1 & 2, 

 p, 786), taken from life. 



Habits. This young male Proboscis Monkey was of a very gentle 

 and affectionate disposition and not at all mischievous ; it reminded 

 us very much of a young Siamese Lutong {Semnointhenis germaini) 

 we once had in captivity, and also of yoimg Gibbons, in the wav it 

 held on to one with its hands and evidently liked to be caressed. 

 On the steamer it had been fed on bananas, so we continued givino- 

 it the same food when it would take them, but some days it refused 

 bananas and was given dates and bread, which it ate in small 

 quantities. When eating, the elongated nose moved up and down 

 with the action of the jaws, in a ridiculous-looking manner. Its most 

 curious habit was its fondness for water : when set at liberty in 



