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across the top of the landslip, and presently pieces of loosened stone 
and shale came tumbling down near where I stood. I fully satisfied 
myself that this was not merely accidental, for I distinctly saw one 
monkey industriously, with both fore paws, and with obvious malice 
prepense, pushing the loose shingle off a shoulder of rock. I then 
tried the effect of throwing stones at them, and this made them quite 
angry, and the number of fragments which they set rolling was 
speedily doubled. This, though it does not actually amount to throw- 
ing or projecting an object by monkeys, comes very near to the same 
thing, and makes me think that there may be truth in the stories of 
their throwing fruit at people from trees,” or at least dropping them 
on their heads. 
2. Lone-rattepD Monkey (xepxori@ykos). 
Presbytis priamus, Elliot.—The Madras Langur. 
There can be little doubt that another species of monkey, described 
by Megasthenes, asrecorded by Strabo and A‘lian, belonged to the genus 
Presbytis, and it may, I think, be identified with the Madras species 
priamus rather than with the Bengal species entellus. ‘‘ The monkeys 
of India,” writes Strabo,” ‘‘are larger than the largest dogs. They 
are white except in the face, which is black, though the contrary is 
observed elsewhere. Their tails are more than two cubits im length; 
they are very tame, and not of a malicious disposition, so that they 
neither attack nor steal.” An account by Alian™ is more detailed. 
«¢ Among the Prasii (Sansk., Prachyas, i. e. Hasterns) in India there are 
found, they say, apes of human-like intelligence, which are to appearance 
about the size of Hyrkanian dogs. Nature has furnished them with fore- 
locks, which one ignorant of the reality would take to be artificial. Their 
chin, like that of a satyr, turns upward, and their tails are like the 
potent one ofthe lion. Their bodies are white all over, except the face 
and the tip of the tail, which are of areddish hue. They are very intel- 
ligent and naturally tame. They are bred in the woods, where also 
they live, subsisting on the fruits which they find growing wild on 
the hills. They resort in great numbers to Latage, an Indian city, 
where they eat rice, which has been laid down for them by the 
King’s orders. In fact, every day a ready-prepared meal is set out 
for their use. It is said that when they have satisfied their appetite 
they retire in an orderly manner to their haunts in the woods without 
injuring a single thing that comes in their way.” Ailian gives 
another account also, which differs in some respects from the above; 
but on the whole, considering the region to which the account of 
1 Jungle Life in India, p. 537. 
12 Geographica, xv. 1, 37. 
13 Hist. Anim., xvi. 10. Cf. Megasthenes, by J. W. M‘Crindle, p. 57. 
