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always black, with the hands and feet concolorous, and the supercilia 
only white, instead of a circle of that color all around the face. The 
Gibbon, moreover, walks less readily on its hindlegs than the hoolock, 
having frequently to prop and urge itself along by its knuckles on the 
ground. In sitting it often rests on its elbows, and will lie readily on 
its back. Anger it shows by a fixed steady look, with the mouth held 
open and the lips occasionally retracted to show the canines, with 
which it can bite severely, but it more usually strikes with its long 
hands, which are at such times held dangling and shaken in a ridiculous 
manner, like a person who has suddenly burnt his fingers. It is, on the 
whole, a gentle peaceable animal, very timid and so wild as not to 
bear confinement if captured adult. They are born generally in the 
early part of the cold weather, a single one at a birth, two being as 
rare as twins in the human race. The young one sticks to the mother’s 
body for about seven months, and then begins gradually to shift for 
itself. So entirely does this animal confine itself to its hands for 
locomotion about the trees, that it holds anything it may have to 
carry by its hind hands or feet. In this way I have seen them scamper 
off with their plunder, out of a Karen plantain garden in the forest. 
“T have had many of these animals while young in confinement. 
They were generally feeble, dull, and querulous, sitting huddled upon 
the ground, and seldom or never climbing trees. On the smooth 
surface of a matted floor they would run along on their feet, and 
slide on their hands at the same time. By being fed solely on plantains, 
or on milk and rice, they were apt to lose all their fur, presenting in 
their nude state a most ridiculous appearance. Few recovered from 
this state; but a change of diet, especially allowing them to help 
themselves to insects, enabled some to come round, resuming their 
natural covering. For the most part they were devoid of those 
pranks and tricks which are exhibited by the young of the Macacus 
and Jnuus, though occasionally and if not tied up, aes would gambol 
about with cats, pups, or young monkeys. 
“The tawny and black varieties of the Gibbon appear to mix 
indiscriminately together. The Karens in the Tenasserim provinces 
consider there is a third variety which they name ‘Khay oo kaba,’ and 
the Talains ‘Woot-o-padga’ (blue ape). This is probably the parti- 
colored or mottled phase of the animal which occurs very often to the 
southward in Malacca. The pale variety is more numerous in the 
district of Amherst than the black one. 
“FYLOBATES LAR extends southward to the Straits, and north- 
ward to the northerly confines of Pegoo (British Burma) ; whether 
