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especially adapted for the digestion of such food, being large and divided 

 into compartments. 



The active habits of this monkey also render a larger cage than is 

 needed for other species of the same size a matter of necessity. A good 

 many, however, are captured and exported, so that this is the most 

 familiar of its group in captivity in Europe, and has often been exhibited 

 in the London Zoological Gardens. 



The range of the Lungoor is wide, from the Deccan to the 

 southern bank of the Ganges ; it is a denizen of the hot plains, being 

 represented in the northern hills by a nearly allied species or local race, 

 the Himalayan Lungoor {Semnopithecus schistaceus), a larger animal, 

 with a longer coat and smaller ears. This animal, although in the 

 ordinary way moving up and down the mountains according to the 

 temperature, may sometimes be seen sporting in the trees among the 

 snow, as high up as 11,000 feet, in the neighbourhood of Simla. 



Common as is the ordinary Lungoor, its range has not yet been com- 

 pletely mapped out to the north-west, west and south, but a different 

 species, the Madras Lungoor {Semnopithecus priamus) occupies the 

 Coromandel Coast and the north of Ceylon, and another, the Malabar 

 Lungoor {Semnopithecus hypoleucus) lives on the Malabar side. In the 

 Nilgiri Hills is found a very handsome species {Semnopithecus johni), 

 with long glossy-black hair and a light-brown head, while in south and 

 west Ceylon there is a species peculiar to the island, the true Wanderoo 

 {Semnopithecus cephalopterus), a brown animal with a ruff of white 

 whiskers ; this is remarkable for producing a completely white variety, 

 in which, however, the face and eyes remain dark. Altogether there are 

 about thirty species of these leaf-eating monkeys or Lungoors, extending 

 east to Java in one direction and Tibet in the other. They resemble the 

 subject of this article in general form and habits, but often have markedly 

 different colours. None are common in captivity. 



Two species, however, are so remarkable as to deserve special 

 mention. The Proboscis Monkey {Nasalis larvatus) of Borneo, a 

 chestnut and buff animal of large size, in which the old male has 

 a huge long, flattened, drooping nose — an absurd caricature of our 



