70 SIMIID^. 



fact that Macaques are found in the Himalaya associated with temples at elevations 

 at which soow annually falls. 



This example of M. pelops, which is of much more recent origin than the type, 

 having been presented to the Museum thirteen years after it, stands in the British 

 Museum Catalogue as 58. 6. 24. 67. It is a deep, rich-brown monkey, without any 

 trace of annulation on the hair. It is an adolescent male measuring 23-8 inches 

 from the tip of the muzzle to the root of the tail along the curve of the head and 

 along the back, while the tail is 9*8 inches ; but as it is simply a skin without the 

 vertebral column, these measurements in all likelihood do not give an accurate 

 idea of the proportion of the tail to the body. The under surface of the body 

 and the inside of the limbs are white, but the thoracic and abdominal regions are 

 washed with golden-yellow. The general direction of the hair on the head is 

 backwards and outwards, exhibitiDg a distinct tendency to radiation. The hairs 

 behind the ears and extending down the back part of the side of the face are paler 

 than the rest of the upper parts. The fur, as in my young Kakhyen monkey and 

 in M. rheso-similis, is short and thick, and clothes the skin up to the sides of the 

 callosities. 



The characters which I have enumerated clearly prove it to be identical with the 

 M. rhesO'Similis, which was procured from a Calcutta dealer, and with the young 

 Kakhyen male, which I have no hesitation in regarding as the young of the Irawady 

 female. 



The type of M. pelops, Hodgson, the sex of which has not been recorded, 

 is described as having the same structure and aspect as M. oinops, but the 

 colours are stated to be more sordid and purpurescent, the slaty grey of the anterior 

 quarters being partially merged in rusty, which is one of the marked features of 

 M. assamensis as compared with M. rhesus. The posterior quarters, however, the 

 description continues, are deep rusty and the anterior quarters are nearly slaty grey ; 

 but the now much-faded type shows a rufous tinge on the shoulder, as in M. assam- 

 ensis. The buttocks are described as being partially clad, except the callosities, 

 whereas, on the other hand, M. oinops {= M. rhesus) is described as having them 

 nude. After a careful consideration of the available materials, — namely, the 

 original descriptions of the two supposed species and of the salient characters 

 of the specimens on which they were based, — it seems to me that the mass 

 of evidence points in the direction of the identity of M. pelops with M, assam- 

 ensis. 



The skulls of the types of 31. pelops have not been removed from their skins, and 

 no crania exist of these Nepal monkeys in the British Museum other than these. 

 Hodgson's figure represents a brown, dusky-faced, ramp-clad animal, but the details 

 have not been carefully worked out in the drawing. All the information I have 

 collected in Sikhim and obtained regarding the fauna of Nepal has not coincided 

 with Hodgson's generalisation that any one species of Macaque is confined exclu- 

 sively to the northern region of mountains. 



