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large towns, frequenting groves; also however in forest in Goomsoor, and open jungle in 

 the Deccan. It is a much larger kind than the other." 



Mr. Hodgson, in J. A. S. IX, 1212, has described the Lungoor of Nepal as a par- 

 ticular species, by the specific designation schistaceus : it would certainly appear, 

 from his description, to be distinct from the Bengal Hoonuman, both exceeding 

 it in size, and differing from any of its varieties observed by me, in colour ; and as the 

 description furnished by that naturalist is brief, I shall here republish it, and then 

 remark wherein it would appear to differ from the Entellus. 



" Habit of Maurus : dark slaty above, below and the entire head, pale yellow; mere 

 hands and feet somewhat darkened or concolorous with the body above ; a pencil of 

 black hairs radiating upwards from the brows, concolorous; tail longer than the body, 

 more or less tufted ; skin black, nude on face, and on last phalanges of anterior digits ; 

 hair on the crown short and radiated, on the cheeks long, directed back, and hiding the 

 ears; piles or fur of one sort, not harsh, nor soft, more or less wavy, three to five 

 inches and a half long on the body, closer and shorter on the tapered tail : thirty in- 

 ches long; tail without the hair thirty-six ; hand six and a half ; foot eight and a half. 

 Females smaller, with shorter canines. Habitat, the Tarai forest and lower hills 

 [of Nepal], rarely the Kachar also." 



Of the Entellus of the Southern Mahratta country, Mr. Elliot states, " An adult 

 male measured, from muzzle to insertion of tail, one foot ten inches and a half; length 

 of tail alone three feet two inches and a half; height from heel to crown three 

 feet two inches and a half; weight twenty-two fts. : ditto of an adult female 

 eighteen Ifes." Mr. Martin gives the admeasurements of the adult male, as two 

 feet two inches from head to root of tail, the latter with hair three feet one 

 inch. In an excursion which I made for the express purpose of observing and col- 

 lecting some specimens of the Hoonuman of Lower Bengal, I procured a fine adult, 

 but not old, male, and a much older, though still not past offspring-bearing, female, 

 besides younger individuals; and I have since obtained other adults. The male 

 measured twenty-four inches from crown to base of tail, the latter without hair 

 thirty-eight inches, being mutilated of its extremity : the corresponding dimensions 

 of the female were twenty-two inches and thirty-nine inches, the slight tuft at the 

 end of the tail reaching to four inches more : hand of the male five inches and three- 

 quarters (or measuring to the extremity of the naked space inside the wrist, nearly 

 six inches and a half); of the female five inches and a half: foot of the male eight 

 inches and a quarter, and of the female seven inches and five-eighths. These ad- 

 measurements were taken from the recent animals. The male here noticed has its 

 permanent series of teeth complete, but quite unworn ; whereas the female has its 

 grinders worn down almost to the gums, and its canines to a level with the incisors, 

 shewing a transverse section of their structure : how the latter should be thus worn 

 away remains to be ascertained. The male was killed in the act of feeding on the 

 pods of a common species of Dolichos, and the same appeared to constitute the 

 contents of the stomachs of the others shot on the same occasion, so far as could be 

 made out, and especially from the pale green colour of the thoroughly well masticated 

 mass. This was at the end of January, and one 1 killed towards the close of July 

 had been feeding on some kind of foliage, thus verifying the suggestion of Prof. 

 Owen regarding the natural diet of this genus of Monkeys. 



