88 PYGATHRIX 
Measurements. Total length, 1,560; tail, 980; foot, 180. Skull: 
total length, 118; Hensel, 82; zygomatic width, 92; intertemporal 
width, 52; palatal length, 48; length of upper molar series, 67; length 
of mandible, 86; length of lower molar series, 46. 
The type in the Paris Museum has faded to a pure white and bears 
but little resemblance to the animal in life. It is quite useless as a 
specimen for determining the species, a faint brownish tinge along 
the dorsal line, and on the right thigh alone indicating that the example 
ever possessed any color on its pelage. 
Although so well known and met with frequently in various parts 
of India, where it is protected and often worshipped, the range of this 
monkey is not yet completely known, probably on account of it being 
confounded by unscientific observers with either P. scHIsTAcEus or P. 
PRIAMUS according to locality. The ranges given above are from the 
two most reliable sources and probably cover the distribution of the 
species in the Indian Peninsula. 
The following account of the habits of the Hanuman Monkey is 
given by Blanford (1. c.): 
“Few, if any wild animals, afford better opportunities for observa- 
tion than the Hanuman Monkey of Northern and Central India. 
Generally protected, and looked upon as sacred by many of the Hindu 
inhabitants, it has no fear of man, and may be found in groves near 
villages, or even in the village trees, as commonly as in the depths of 
the forest. In many parts of India it is a common occurrence to see 
these monkeys on the roofs of houses. They frequently pilfer grain 
from the grain dealer’s shops, whilst the damage they inflict on gardens 
and fields renders them so great a nuisance that the inhabitants of 
the country, although they will not as a rule kill the monkeys them- 
selves, sometimes beg Europeans to shoot the intruders. 
“S. entellus feeds on fruit and grain, seed, seed-pods (for instance 
gram), leaves and young shoots, the last two forming a large portion 
of its food. Certain vegetable poisons are said to be taken by this 
monkey with impunity, doses of five and even ten grains of strychnine 
having been given to one without effect, although the same drug killed 
Macacus rhesus quickly. 
“The Hanuman is usually found in smaller or larger communities, 
composed of individuals of both sexes and all ages, the youngest 
clinging to their mothers and being carried by them especially when 
alarmed. An old male is occasionally. found solitary, as with many 
other animals. The story that male and female live in separate troups, 
