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skull are — four inches and three-quarters, two and seven-eighths, 

 three inches, one and five-eighths, and nearly three quarters of an 

 inch. The upper canines of the male project nearly five-eighths of 

 an inch from the bony socket. Capt. Phayre sent the following note 

 respecting the habits of this animal. " These monkeys frequent the 

 banks of salt-water creeks, and devour shell-fish. In the cheek-pouch 

 of the female were found the claws and body of a crab" : accordingly, 

 there can be little hesitation in identifying it with the other species of 

 Dr. Heifer, to which the same habits were assigned. 



Of the species of this genus, one only appears to inhabit Bengal, the 

 M. rhesus, which is numerous in the Soonderbuns, where its habits I 

 suspect pretty much resemble those of M. cynomolgus : it frequents 

 thick jungly situations, particularly about the borders of narrow 

 gullies, and to escape pursuit will sometimes plunge into the water 

 from an overhanging tree, swim to some distance beneath the surface, 

 and then land and make off on the opposite bank. The Hoonuman, 

 on the contrary, would appear never to enter the water. The 

 M. rhesus also occurs, as we have seen, even on the Himalaya so far 

 westward as Simla, and Mr. Hodgson has sent it from Nepal, where I 

 cannot help suspecting that fin different phases,) it constitutes both 

 his M. oinops and M. pelops, J. A. S. IX, 1213 ; and it is included 

 in Dr. Walker's list of the mammalia of Assam, (Calc. Joum. Nat. 

 Hist. II, 265,) together with another species discovered in that part 

 by Dr. McClelland, and described as M. assamensis in Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1839, p. 148. Still further to the N. W., " Monkeys" are stated by 

 Elphinstone to be found only in the north-eastern part of Afghanistan: 

 but no Simiadm are included in an elaborate paper on the mammalia 

 of that country, prepared by Capt. Thos. Hutton for publication in this 

 Journal, nor have I seen any subsequent notice of their occurrence in 

 that vicinity. In the Indian peninsula generally, the common species 

 of Macacus is the M. radiatus, being the only one included in the 

 catalogues of Messrs. Sykes and Elliot ; but M. sinicus is likewise 

 found in the southernmost part and in Ceylon, as is also the M. 

 silenus. 



The following is a brief synopsis of the Indian species of Simiadm, 

 with those of Assam, Arracan, and the Tenasserim provinces, as far as 

 they are at present ascertained : — 



