IN SVMATRA. 



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which they lay, it required the closest search to find them. 

 Lying flat on the ground, their sharp acute horns mimicked 

 the points of leaves, from which lines radiated representing 

 crossing and overlapping margins, while dark-brown spots and 



HEAD OF BfCEEOS, AND SECTION OF ITS CRANIUM. 



markings distributed over their bodies could not be told from 

 the blotches and fungoid growths of decaying vegetation. In 

 coitu the male embraces the female round the lumbar region. 



On shooting a Siamang in our high Urostigma preserve, 

 my hunter found, on picking it up, a young one clasped in 



