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or pale orange, sometimes ashy white. Face black ; extremity of the 

 tail black. 



Bab. — Assam, Sjlhet, Tipperah, Chittagong, Arracan and Upper 

 Burmah. 



(12) THE PROBOSCIS MONKEY. 



(SEMNOPITHECUS (NASALIS) LAKVATUS— Geoff. St. Hilaire.) 



Description. — The chief feature of this monkey is its nose, which 

 is produced into a proboscis. The animal is thus described by Dr. 

 Anderson (Anatomical and Zoological Researches, 1878) : — "The upper 

 surface of the head, neck, back and flanks dark red-brown, passing into 

 greyish yellow on the crupper, tail, and limbs. A yellow stripe on the 

 shoulder. The hair of the sides of the face, neck and shoulder is long 

 and of a yellowish tint variegated with reddish brown, and the chin is 

 well bearded. The under parts are yellowish white and the tail is 

 tufted. The face is dirty yellow merging with white around the lips. 

 The under surface of the extremities are blackish, and the ears are of 

 the same colour, and small. Nose produced into a proboscis with large 

 nostrils opening downwards and separated from each other by a 

 septum (partition) * * *. The eyes are rather widely apart, the neck 

 short, and the throat rather swollen from the presence of a laryngeal 

 sac." 



Hab. — Borneo, 



(13) THE RED-HAIKED MONKEY. 



(SEMNOPITHECUS RUBICUNDUS- Muller.) 



Description. — About the same size as an Assam langur. The 

 characteristic features of this monkey are its dark maroon colour, and 

 the radiating hair of the forehead In some specimens the bands and 

 feet are blackish ; in others, of the same colour as the body. Hair of 

 the sides of the body long and directed downwards and backwards. 

 Face and lips flesh-coloured, blotched with pale bluish black spots. 



Hab. — Borneo. 



(14) THE BANDED LEAF MONKEY. 



(SEMNOPITHECUS FEMORALIS— Horsfield.) 



Description. — Dr. Anderson describes it as " a uniformly brownish 

 black monkey, the limbs, head and tail being almost wholly black, but 

 the difference between the colours is not well defined, and the fore limb 

 is grizzled with, whitish hairs. The tail is slightly tufted at its extre- 

 mity. There is a rather short, vertical crest directed backwards, the 

 hair anterior to it projecting forward over the eyebrow. The ears 

 are moderately large and partially exposed. The hair on the frout 

 and side of the head and on the middle of the crest is blackish or dull 

 brown. The upper lip and chin are clad with short whitish hairs, with 

 longer black hairs intermixed on the chin. Along the flanks the hair 

 is short, sparse, brown, and somewhat grizzled, which is the character 



