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into uniformity ; the white whiskers, however, remaining the same in all, as well as 

 the circumstance of the croup and tail being much paler than the rest, and more or 

 less albescent, the tip of the latter being usually whitish or sullied white. Pr. Johnii, 

 (Fischer), of the Nilgherries, is a species closely allied in its colouring to the black 

 examples of Pr. cephalopterus ; but the former attains a much larger size, and 

 its tail seems to be always black, and whiskers dark brown, concolorous with the 

 crown. The expression of the countenances of these two species, when living, is ex- 

 ceedingly dissimilar. 



The Presbytis thersites and Pr. cephalopterus, Macacns sinicus (v. pileatus*), 

 and Loris gracilis, appear to be the only species of Quadrumana indigenous to 

 Ceylon ; the three Monkeys seeming to be confined in their distribution to that 

 island. The Inuus silenus, to which Ceylon has generally been assigned as the 

 habitat, does not occur there in the wild state ; but inhabits the neighbouring pro- 

 vinces of Travancore and Cochin on the mainland of India.f 



* This is the Rilawd of the Cingalese ; and Pr. cephalopterus is, I believe, the IVandura, 

 corrupted into Wanderoo, which has been transferred to the Inuus silenus by Europeans. 

 In Major Forbes's "Eleven years in Ceylon," 11,144, we read that — "At Newerra 

 Ellia, and scattered over the colder parts of the island, is a species of very large Monkey 

 of a dark colour : some of those I saw were much bigger than the Wandura ; and one 

 that passed some distance before me, when resting on all four feet, looked so like a Ceylon 

 Bear, that I nearly took him for one." This I presume to have been the Pr. thersites ; or 

 could it have been Pr. Johnii ? 



t Dr. John Davy remarks, of the animals of Ceylon, that— " In respect to the mam- 

 malia, I am not aware that any species unknown on the continent of India is to be found 

 in Ceylon, though there are several unknown on the latter, that are common on the con- 

 tinent ; for instance, the Royal Tiger, the Wolf, and different species of Antelope." 

 (Travels, fyc. in Ceylon, p. 78.) The "Tiger" so often mentioned by Col. Campbell 

 and others is, I believe, the Cheetah (Felis jubata) ; which name (or Cheeta Baug ) 

 is in Bengal applied to the Leopard. Besides the three Monkeys, however, above 

 noticed as peculiar to Ceylon, I suspect must be added the Parudoxurns zeylanicus, 

 (Schreber, of which Dr. Templeton has sent me a young" specimen on loan, and the 

 identity of which with the allied Philippine species, Martes philippinensis of Cameli, vel 

 Par. aureus, F. Cuv., I doubt exceedingly) ; and, according to Mr. Elliot, the Sciurus 

 macrourus. Vesper tilio pictus (verus), identical with Javanese specimens, occurs in 

 Ceylon, and probably in the Indian peninsula also ; where, however, it seems to be 

 generally replaced by an allied species, which I take to be Kerivoula Syhesi of 

 Cray. Of the Squirrels, Mr. Elliot writes—" There is no example of Sc. palmarum in 

 Ceylon that I could see, whereas Sc. tristriatus is abundant. The Sc. macrourus is quite 

 different from my Travancore specimen which you have identified with it (p. 869 ante). 

 I saw many skins of macrourus in Ceylon, all differing in a remarkable manner from 

 each other in their disposition and shades of colour, and all differing from mine of which 

 the mixed grey tint is uniform, and also the belly ochrey. The one this most resembles 

 is the Sc. pygerythrm of IHlanger's Voyage, and I think it will probably turn out to be 



