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Fig. 6.— Upper aspect of the skull fig. 5. | nat. size. 



The female skull also is fully adult, and it differs from the male in its much smaller 

 size, and in being smooth and rounded, the frontals arching upwards and backwards 

 from the supraorbital margins, which do not form ridges. In aged females, however 

 the supraorbital ridges become well marked, also the temporal ridges. 



A monkey resembling M. rhesus occurs in Kashmir, and is sometimes found at an 

 elevation of 10,000 feet. It is described as being a redder monkey than M. rhesus, 

 with a perfectly distinct cry. It is called by the natives the Funj or Fonj. Its 

 specific characters are unknown, but should it resemble the monkey which lived a few 

 years ago in the Zoological Gardens, London, where it was known as the Kashmir mon- 

 key {M. pelops), it would appear not to differ specifically from M. rhesus. This animal, 

 however, supposed to be from Kashmir, was purchased either at Agra or Delhi from 

 a native who asserted that it came from Kashmir ; but knowing how freely the term 

 " Kashmir" is employed by natives who consider that the value of an object is enhanced 

 in the eyes of Europeans by its being assigned to Kashmir, no reliance can be placed 

 on the alleged habitat. At the same time this so-called Kashmir monkey now depo- 

 sited in the British Museum (71. 3. 3. 5.) has the rufous colouring of the hinder half 

 of the body more brilliant than in the generality of examples of M. rhesus from the 

 plains, but with the colours conforming to the same kind and distribution, so that 

 the differences between them are only of that grade which is generally considered 

 as distinctive of a race. 



Hodgson has also figured in his manuscript drawings a pale, almost albino-like, 

 Macaque from Sikhim, but no definite information regarding it has been recorded. 



