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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 Pamdang, 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. 



TaJian River, in Pahang. 



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

 Pachim and Kabin. 



Teiiping, or Taipeng, the capital of Perak : with a Museum. 



Tanjong Kopang, in Johore. 



Tapah, a town in the south of Perak. 



Taroar, in Junkceylon. 



Telolc 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. 



WeUedey Province, the 4th of the five " Straits Settlements," on 

 the Peninsula opposite Penang. Capital, Butterworth. 



Order PRIMATES. 



Family Simiid^s. 



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 (wi'itten " Wowwow " by 

 Cantor, p. 2), and also " Cngka etam " for the dark-coloured and 

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

 them " Chanee." 



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



Hylohatcs Jar, Blanf. Eaun. Ind., 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 

 brought to 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 Koyal Asiatic Soc. 

 no. 20, 1894, p. 16) says of the species in Johore : " Hylobates aXbi- 

 manus, Yig. & 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 Pahansr jungles," 



