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upper lip, with just a little sign of coming hair, and then there is the funny nose, the upper part like a 
boy's, but the end seems to have been pulled out and turned up, so that the nostrils are quite at the 
tip. The face has a tinge of blue about it, and the animal, even when old enough to be sitting on a 
tree, looks sad and melancholy. 
They grow to the size of a large Pointer Dog, and are powerful animals, assembling in troops, and 
playing and associating probably with the Orangs. Stuffed specimens of the Proboscis Monkey are 
usually simple caricatures, and by no means good ones, for they do not give one-half of the curious 
appearance of the face. In nature, and in drawings taken shortly after death, the first thing that 
strikes one is the flat top to the head, and the red hair there, starting from the top of the crown, and 
radiating in all directions, and coming as a very sharp line straight over the eyebrows, and cutting 
the forehead very short. Then the prodigious nose, stuck out some inches in front of the mouth, is. 
the long-nosed monkey. 
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with the rest of the face, naked, and of a reddish-brown flesh-colour. The eyes are wide apart and 
0}Km, and are of a hazel colour. The whiskers clasp the face, as it were, and are brushed back, and 
join the hair of the neck, whilst the little beard sticks out like a goat’s. The mouth is wide, and the 
cliin recedes. It is a long-bodied creature, and there is a great bend outwards in the back when it 
squats on its haunches. There is a good-sized chest, there are long arms, still longer legs, and a great 
tad. The prevailing colour of the back and shoulders is the red or dark-red brown of the head hair, 
whilst the rest of the body is of a lighter tint, the tail and limbs especially. The thumb of the hand 
is small, and barely reaches as far as the first finger-joint, but the toe-thumb is large, widely set 
fiom the foot, and the skin-fold comes far down it, as also does a web between the toes, the third of 
which is the longest. 
The. skull of this Monkey greatly resembles that of the other Semnopitheci. The face part is 
& waller in comparison with that of the great Apes, but then it is not much larger than the brain 
case. There is a faint ridge at the side, and the usual one from one ear to the other exists. The 
fi'orit of the face on either side of the opening for the nose is rather larger and more prominent than in 
