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  PITHECUS 
  

  

  banded 
  with 
  black 
  and 
  cream 
  buff; 
  hands 
  and 
  fingers 
  black 
  covered 
  

   with 
  yellowish 
  white 
  hairs; 
  outer 
  side 
  of 
  thighs 
  like 
  back, 
  legs 
  bluish 
  

   gray 
  ; 
  under 
  parts 
  and 
  inner 
  side 
  of 
  limbs 
  grayish 
  white 
  ; 
  tail 
  grizzled 
  

   black 
  and 
  white 
  above, 
  brownish 
  gray 
  beneath; 
  feet 
  brownish 
  gray. 
  

   Young 
  females 
  are 
  lighter 
  in 
  color, 
  some 
  a 
  pale 
  reddish 
  hue. 
  Ex 
  type 
  

   British 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Measurements. 
  Total 
  length, 
  906; 
  tail, 
  432; 
  foot, 
  152; 
  ear, 
  35, 
  

   (Collector). 
  Skull: 
  total 
  length, 
  111.6; 
  occipito-nasal 
  length, 
  92.5; 
  

   Hensel, 
  75.2 
  ; 
  zygomatic 
  width, 
  76.9 
  ; 
  intertemporal 
  width, 
  38.7 
  ; 
  width 
  

   of 
  braincase, 
  54.7 
  ; 
  greatest 
  width 
  of 
  rostrum, 
  38.4 
  ; 
  length 
  of 
  rostrum, 
  

   40; 
  palatal 
  length, 
  41.7; 
  median 
  length 
  of 
  nasals, 
  17.5 
  ; 
  length 
  of 
  upper 
  

   molar 
  series, 
  27.7; 
  length 
  of 
  mandible, 
  79.7; 
  length 
  of 
  lower 
  molar 
  

   series, 
  35.6. 
  Ex 
  type 
  British 
  Museum. 
  

  

  This 
  Macaque 
  while 
  resembling 
  in 
  color 
  of 
  pelage 
  its 
  relative 
  

   from 
  Koendoer 
  next 
  to 
  it 
  on 
  the 
  south, 
  agrees 
  in 
  its 
  cranial 
  characters 
  

   with 
  those 
  of 
  P. 
  fascicularis 
  from 
  Sumatra; 
  a 
  rather 
  inexplicable 
  

   fact 
  in 
  both 
  the 
  cases 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  and 
  the 
  one 
  from 
  Koendoer, 
  

   skipping 
  the 
  island 
  nearest 
  to 
  them, 
  and 
  agreeing, 
  in 
  the 
  cranial 
  

   characters, 
  more 
  nearly 
  with 
  the 
  species 
  farthest 
  from 
  them 
  on 
  the 
  

   south 
  and 
  north. 
  

  

  Pithecus 
  fuscus 
  (Miller). 
  

  

  Macacus 
  fuscus 
  Miller, 
  Proc. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus., 
  XXVI, 
  1903, 
  p. 
  

   476. 
  

  

  SIMALVR 
  ISLAND 
  MACAQUE. 
  

  

  Type 
  locality. 
  Simalur 
  Island, 
  off 
  northwestern 
  coast 
  of 
  Sumatra. 
  

   Type 
  in 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Genl. 
  Char. 
  Tail 
  long, 
  nearly 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  body. 
  

   Skull 
  small. 
  

  

  Geogr. 
  Distr. 
  Simalur 
  and 
  Lasia 
  Islands. 
  

  

  Color. 
  Head, 
  upper 
  parts 
  of 
  body, 
  and 
  outer 
  side 
  of 
  limbs 
  black- 
  

   ish 
  brown 
  annulated 
  with 
  wood 
  brown, 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  limbs 
  appearing 
  

   lighter 
  than 
  body; 
  base 
  of 
  hairs 
  drab; 
  under 
  parts 
  and 
  inner 
  side 
  of 
  

   limbs 
  grayish 
  white 
  ; 
  tail 
  above 
  like 
  back, 
  beneath 
  grayish 
  white 
  ; 
  hands 
  

   and 
  feet 
  blackish 
  brown 
  annulated 
  with 
  wood 
  brown. 
  Ex 
  type 
  United 
  

   States 
  National 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Measurements. 
  Total 
  length, 
  920; 
  tail, 
  450; 
  foot, 
  125. 
  Skull: 
  

   total 
  length, 
  122 
  ; 
  occipito-nasal 
  length, 
  97.2 
  ; 
  Hensel, 
  88.5 
  ; 
  zygomatic 
  

   width, 
  85.2; 
  intertemporal 
  width, 
  40.6; 
  palatal 
  length, 
  49.6; 
  median 
  

  

  