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8. Macacus assamensis. B.M. 
Forehead and crown with short hair directed backwards; fur grey 
brown, varied with the white tips to the longer hairs; chin and 
below whiter; outside of the shoulders, thighs, and limbs darker 
grey ; tail longer than the body. 
Macacus assamensis, M‘Clelland, Horsf. P. Z. 8, 1839, p. 148. 
Hab. Siam, Mouhot. 
Like M. cynomolgus, but pale grey, without any red shade. Hors- 
field’s type is not in the Museum Collection. 
See also 
a. Macacus aureus, Is. Geoff. Bélanger, Voy. The hair of the 
crown forms a triangle, edged with white on the sides, with 
black bristles on the eyebrows, the hair of the triangle 
directed obliquely ; fur red fulvous, hairs waved and striated ; 
outer sides of limbs pale grey; cheeks, neck, and sides of 
the head with long hairs; face 2 ? Macacus car- 
bonarius, var. pyrrhous, Blyth. ? Simia mulatta, Shaw. 
Hab. India: Bengal, Leschenault ; Sumatra, Duvawel. This 
cannot be our pale-yellow Cynomolgus, as the outsides of 
the limbs are like the back, but paler. 
b. Macacus palpebrosus, Is. Geoff. Cat. p. 92; Arch. du Mus. v. 
p. 542, note. Fur brown, olive-washed ; below white ; crown 
reddish ; eyelid and spot on each side, rather below and out- 
side of the eye, white; tail very long. Hab. Manilla. 
9. Macacus Rhesus. The Rhesus. B. M. 
The forehead and crown with short reflexed hair; fur grey brown, 
yellow-washed with the yellow tips to the longer hairs; sides of 
neck, shoulders, and outsides of fore limbs darker grey; haunches 
and hinderside of thighs fulvous ; tail shorter than the body, brown 
at the end. 
Macaque & queue courte, Buffon, H. N. Supp. vii. t. 18. Simia 
Rhesus, Audeb. t. 1. S. erythreea, Schreb. Macacus erythreeus, Zs, 
(er Voy. Bélang. Simia patas, Link, Macacus Rhesus, Desm. 
? M. nipalensis, Hodgson. 
Var. M. (Pithex) pelops, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Calcutta, ix. 
p. 1212, figure of head. 
Hab. India: Bengal, Nepal, Hodgson. 
See Macacus cyclopis, Swinhoe, P. Z. 8. 1862, p. 350, t. 42. 
Head round; face flat ; forehead naked ; neck with a ruff- 
like beard ; whiskers dark ; tail short, hairy ; fur thick, 
woolly, slate-coloured. Hab. Formosa. Called How-tsze or 
Kaou. 
10. Macacus speciosus. The Brilliant Macaque. 2B.M. 
Forehead and crown with short reflexed hairs; fur very fine and 
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