NO. 5, — 1850.] MAMMALS OF CEYLON. 



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DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES AND VARIETIES 

 OF MAMMALS FOUND IN CEYLON. 



By E. F. Kelaabt, m.d. 



Pkesbytes Cephalopterus, var. b. Monticola, nobis. 



The variety of the Nestor, found in great abundance in 

 the higher parts of the Kand} an Provinces, differs from the 

 low country animal chiefly in the absence of the white on 

 the croup and inside of the thighs. It also attains a larger 

 size, is stouter limbed, and is generally of a darker colour, 

 with a rufous tinge on the neck, and the hair longer and 

 more wavy. 



Mr. Blyth, to whom I sent a specimen from Nuwara Eliya, 

 is inclined to consider this a distinct species ; at all events, 

 he thinks that it bears the same affinity to the P. cephalop- 

 terus of the jungles of the low country as Sciurus Tennantii 

 of Layard does to S. macrurus. This is the large monkey 

 noticed in Colonel Forbes' work on Ceylon as inhabiting 

 Nuwara Eliya. A female specimen killed at Nuwara Eliya 

 measured as follows : — 



ft. in. 



Length from vertex of head to root of tail ... 1 5^ 

 „ of tail ... ... 2 2 



„ from ear to chin ... .-. 0 3J 



„ of forearm ... ... 0 7 



„ of palm ... ... 0 2\ 



„ from knee to heel ... ... 0 



„ of foot ... ... 0 6 



„ ofsole ... ... 0' 4 



This is but a medium-sized specimen. The one sent to 

 Mr. Blyth was larger. They are usually seen in large 



