Catalogue of the Mammals and Birds of Burma. — By the 

 Edward Blyth, C.M.Z.S. 



Sub-kingdom VERTEBRATA. 

 Class MAMMALIA. 



Order FRIMATES. 



Sub-order Cheiropoda. 



Tribe CATARRHINI. 



Fam. Hylobatidse. 



Gibbons, or Long-armed Apes. 



*1. HXLOBATES HOOLOCS.* 



Simia hoolock, Harlan ; S. scyrites and H. ehoromandus, Ogilby. Myouk Ulwai-gyen, 

 Arakan ; also Too-poung, of the Arakanese, Tickell. 



The "White-browed Gibbon inhabits the hill-forests from the basin of the 

 Brahmaputra to that of the Irawadi. 



2. H. he. 

 Homo lar, L. ; Simia longimana, Schreber ; S. albimana, Vigors and Horsfield ; Pithecus 

 variegatus, Geot&oy (nee Kuhl) ; S. entelloides, Is. Geoffroy ; S. pileatus, Gray. 



The "Wnite-handed Gibbon bears the same native name as the preceding 

 species, and inhabits the hill-forests of the Tenasserim provinces, Malayan 

 peninsula, Siam, Cambodja, if not also Hainan, and probably the South 

 of China. 



According to Dr. Anderson, two species of Gibbon occur in the 

 vicinity of Bhamo ; f but I cannot help suspecting that mere differences 

 of colour were so regarded, especially as one of them, mentioned as a 

 light-coloured species, is indicated from native report only. Black examples 

 of H. hooloclc and M. lar have been figured from life by Dr. Sclater ; J and 



* An asterisk prefixed denotes tbat the species was obtained by Sir A. P. Phayre. 

 t "Eeport of Expedition to Western Tunan viS. Bhamo," by J. Anderson, M,D., 

 pp. 256, 271, 273. + P. Z. S. 1870, p. 86, pi. v. 



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