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mountain, and the Rhinoceros to nearly 4000 ft. at any rate. Of 

 Nemorhoedus we saw tracks on the summit-ridge. At the foot of 

 the mountain was a hot sulphur spring, which the Malays assured 

 us was much frequented just at sunset by many kinds of beasts. 

 We were never so fortunate as to see any there, although it had 

 evidently been frequented from time to time by Elephants." 



1. Macacus kufescens Anders. 



Macacus rufescens Anderson, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 204 ; Sclater, op. 

 cit. p. 495 ; id. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 194 ; Anders. Zool. Res. (1879) 

 p. 79 ; S. S. Mower, P. Z. S. 1900, p. 315. 



a. 2 sk. Patelung, 7th April, 1899. 



This specimen is of considerable interest, for the species is 

 apparently known only from two specimens ; the first of which 

 was sent by Dr. Anderson to this Society with no further par- 

 ticulars than that it had been " purchased at Singapore," and 

 Dr. Anderson, not knowing to which species it should be referred, 

 suggested the above name. This specimen is now in the 

 British Museum, where I have examined it, and, except in its 

 slightly smaller size, agrees in all respects with the present 

 example. 



Shortly afterwards Dr. Anderson procured a young female in 

 the Calcutta market, which subsequently also found its way to 

 this Society, through Mr. Jamrach, with the additional infor- 

 mation that it was supposed to have been brought to Calcutta 

 from Batavia. The present specimen therefore fixes the hitherto 

 somewhat doubtful habitat of this species as being the Malay 

 Peninsula, whence doubtless the second specimen also came, as 

 it is not unlikely that a ship bound for Calcutta from Batavia 

 would touch at Singapore. The present example is not quite 

 adult, but being rather older than either of the other two speci- 

 mens I append a full description : — Hair moderately long and 

 wavy on the back, shorter and rather sparse on the underparts. 

 Pace and buttocks naked. Geueral colour of a warm reddish brown, 

 but many of the hairs, especially on the dorsal area, with a dark 

 tip and one or more dark annulations. Tail very short, about 

 an inch in length, and covered with hair. The hair of the crown, 

 which is short and light in colour, radiates from a central point, 

 while a few black bristles grow out from the edge of the forehead. 

 The measurements and colour of the soft parts are not given, 

 and those given below are from the dried skin. 



The skull is considerably larger than the specimen in the 

 British Museum, which I take to be the type, and is that of an 

 individual a good deal older although not quite adult. Its chief 

 points of difference from the skulls of other nearly allied species 

 (e. g. M. hrunneus) are the length of the snout, narrowness of 

 the brain-case, and also the sharp and clearly defined supraorbital 

 processes : in these points it completely agrees with Anderson's 

 description. 



