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Macacus. 



Macacus maurus F. Cuvier (1823). 

 (Macacus ocreatus, Ogilby (1840)). 

 Celebes: Maros; adult cf (314) and Q (315) with her young. Very 

 common in this district. I lost several of theni that had 

 fallen, after being shot, in the spiny bamboo in the forest 

 of Tanralili and in the crevices of the limestone cliffs by 

 Bantimurong. 



Pare-Pare ; adult 9 (334), skeletons 9 (332) and cT (333). 



From Kandari-bay I got a living female and from the island 



Buton, through the courtesy of Mr. Eerdmans, a living male. 



Besides these I observed specimens at Katjang and Bonthain. 



Hitherto the exact locality where this monkey is living in Celebes 



was not known. Schlegel ') writes: „Feu le docteur Forsten nous en 



a envoye, en 1840, un individu provenant de Celebes et probablement 



encore de la partie meridionale de cette üe, attendu que, ni ce na- 



turaliste, ni Wallace, ni M. von Rosenberg n'ont jamais rencontrece 



singe dans la partie septentrionale. Les objets vivants que Ton ap- 



porte en Europe viennent aussi, au dire des marchands de C61ebes." 



It is a very curious fact that Wallace does not mention this 



monkey from Celebes in his enumeration ofanimals living in that island. 



Wallace lived for some months near Maros. From that place he 



mentions only what he calls Cynopithecus nigrescens, but this is surely 



erroneous. I saw there troops of Macacus maurus and there is no other 



monkey living there. Cynopithecus (nigrescens) niger is restricted to 



North-Celebes. 



In a forest between Maros and Tanralili I shot four specimens in 

 a few hours and saw about ten others. 



Generally speaking this monkey is very common in the southern 

 parts of Celebes. Besides at Maros I found it at Pare-Pare, Katjang, 

 Bonthain and I got a specimen from Kandari-bay and the island Buton. 

 I could detect no trace of it in the island Saleyer, nor did I hear 

 of it in Luwu in the central part of Celebes. As it is also unknown 

 in North Celebes, the play-ground of Cynopithecus niger, it seems to 

 be restricted to the southern peninsula of Celebes and the neigh- 

 bouring island of Buton. Another curious fact is the different colour 



1) Schlegel, Mus. d'hist. nat. Leide. 12me livr., 1876, pag. 118. 



