Catalogue of the Mammals and Birds of Burma .- 

 Edward Blyth, C.M.Z.S. 



-By the late 



Sub-kingdom VERTEBRATA, 



Class MAMMALIA. 



Order PRIMATES. 



Sub-order Cheiropoda. 



Tribe CATARRHINI. 



Fam. Hylofoatidse. 



Gibbons, or Long-armed Apes. 



*1. Hylobates hoolock.* 



Simia hoolock, Harlan ; E. scyrites and H. choromandus, 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. LAK. 



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

 mriegatus, Geoffroy (nee Kubl) ; H. entelloides, Is. Geoffroy ; H. pileatus, Gray. 



The White-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 m hoohclc and H. lar have been figured from life by Dr. Sclater ; % and 



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

 t "Report of Expedition to "Western Yunan via Bbamo," by J. Anderson, M.D., 

 pp. 256, 271, 273. X p. Z . S. }«»«. y "-j, y y. 



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