1844.] Notices of various Mammalia. 473 



for examination, the Society being already indebted to that gentleman 

 for numerous other specimens of Arracanese mammalia, several of 

 which are new, and for nearly 200 species of birds, besides specimens 

 in other classes, to all of which he is continually fast adding. 



Macacus nemestrinus (?J A huge specimen of what I conceive 

 to be merely the common Pig-tailed Monkey of authors, numerous in 

 Sumatra, (where three varieties of it are alluded to by Raffles, who 

 terms the species Simla carpolegus,) if not also in other parts of the 

 Malayan archipelago and peninsula, differs from ordinary specimens 

 of its race, such as are commonly seen in captivity, in the develope- 

 ment of its coat of hair, especially on the fore-quarters, — in having the 

 crown merely infuscated, instead of black (or nearly so), — and in the 

 terminal tuft of its tail being bright ferruginous ; besides which, there 

 is a strong tinge of golden-ferruginous about the shoulders. The coat 

 is fine in texture, and upon the fore. quarters the hairs of it measure 

 from four to five inches long ; on the loins they scarcely exceed two 

 inches, and on the under-parts are comparatively scanty; the gene- 

 ral colour being that prevalent among the Macaci, or grizzled brown, 

 the piles annulated with dusky and fulvous ; crown darker, and the 

 middle of the back posterior to the lengthened hair is also darker, becom- 

 ing black along the upper surface of the tail, which has a bright ferrugi- 

 nous tuft as before noticed : but there is no trace of this upon a very 

 young specimen also sent, which has likewise little appearance of annu- 

 lation to its fur, and the colours generally are subdued and much paler. 

 A live example (of undoubted nemestrinus) which I possess, about a 

 third grown, begins to shew the grizzling or annulation to the fur of its 

 fore-quarters, but no sign as yet of the rufous tail-tip. Upon the whole, 

 the very large fine specimen under consideration, does not differ more 

 from ordinary domesticated examples of the Pig-tailed Monkey, than 

 does an unusually fine wild old male of the M. rhesus which I pro- 

 cured some time ago in this vicinity, from such domesticated specimens 

 of the latter as must be familiar to the observation of most naturalists 

 who are conversant with the study of mammalia. Capt. Phayre ob- 

 tained these animals in a mountainous and rocky situation, and it is 

 doubtless Dr. Heifer's second species of (so called) Cercopithecus. It 

 belongs, indeed, (as does also M. rhesus,) to the division Panto of Mr. 

 Ogilby, which comprehends all the short-tailed Macaci of Cuvier; but 



