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Simpai, on the Batu Pahat, Sembrong, in Johore. 



Simpang, in Perak. 



Singapore, island and town, the capital of the Straits Settlements ; 

 with a Museum. 



Singora, on the east coast of the Peninsula, tributary to Siam. 



Sungei Pandang, a river in the south-west of Singapore Island. 



Sungei Ujong, a Malay State on the west of the Peninsula, pro- 

 tected and administered by England. 



Taluin River, in Pahang. 



TaJikamm, a village on the Bangpakong river in Siam, between 

 Pachim and Kabin. 



Tavpmg, or Taipeng, the capital of Perak ; with a Museum. 



Tanjong Kopang, in Johore. 



Tapah, a town in the south of Perak. 



Taroar, in Junkceylon. 



Tel oh Anson, a port in the south of Perak. 



Temerloh, in Pahang. 



Tringganu, a Malay State on the east of the Peninsula, nominally 

 subject to Siam. 



Ulu Langhat, in Selangor. 



Ulu Pahang, Upper Pahang. 



Wellesley Province, the 4th of the live " Straits Settlements," on 

 the Peninsula opposite Penang. Capital, Butterworth. 



Order PRIMATES. 



Family Simiidje. 



The Gibbons (exclusive of the Siamang) are collectively known 

 to the English in the Straits Settlements as " Waawaas." The 

 Malays generally use the same term (written " Wowwow " by 

 Cantor, p. 2), and also " L T ngka etam " for the dark-coloured and 

 " Ungka puti " for the light-coloured forms. The Siamese call 

 them " Chanee." 



1. Htlobates lab (Linn.). The White-handed Gibbon. 



Hylobatcs lav, Blanf . Eaun. Iud., Mamm. p. 7. 



Cantor (p. 2) records this species from the " Malayan Peninsula," 

 and says "the colour varies from blackish brown to light brown, 

 yellowish or dirty white, sometimes uniform, sometimes mottled." 

 The only Malayan specimen I have seen is one in the Selangor 

 Museum, dark brown in colour, obtained near Kuala Lumpor in 

 Selangor. In December 1897 a dead gibbon of this species was 

 broughtto me in Bangkok, where it had died apparently in captivity; 

 unfortunately I was unable to ascertain where it had been originally 

 caught. Mr. Kelsall (Journal Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. 

 no. 26, 1894, p. 16) says of the species in Johore : " Hylobates albi- 

 manus, Vig. & Horsf., the common black Wau Wau. This species 

 was fairly plentiful everywhere on the Indau and Sembrong rivers. 

 It always goes in small troops." And Ridley (J. S. B. R. A. S. 

 no. 25, 1894, p. 57) writes it " is common in the Pahang jungles," 



