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of the Hindoos that if there are males on one side and females on the other bank of the river, and 
plenty of boats between, the sexes will never mix, but that the males have great lights together. This 
is, however, one of the many fictions of those races who rarely study Nature. Some of these Monkeys 
were introduced to Kishenagur, in Lower Bengal, across the rivers, by devotees, and the offspring of one 
pair increased to such an extent as to become a perfect nuisance, so that, in 18G7 a large number of the 
native community presented a petition, praying that measures might be taken by the municipality to 
destroy some of the too numerous Monkeys that infested the station, causing fearful havoc among the 
fruit and grain. An order was issued, and 500 were killed. “There must be many thousands,” wrote 
a correspondent of the Delhi Gazette. This act was soon succeeded by another petition from 
a different section of the native population for the cancelment of the order to kill wliat they called 
their long deceased ancestors. The Entellus is not found in Africa, nor amongst the Himalayas; 
neither does it migrate from the upper to the lower districts of Bengal at special seasons. The 
Himalayan Semnopitheci are the Langoor and another — the S emnopithecus pileatus and Sernno pithecus 
barbel. 
It was stated formerly that the Entellus could be seen on Simla all the year through ; but when the 
snow falls during the winter it seeks a warmer climate in the depths of the Khuds, returning again to 
the heights as it melts away. They may be seen, however, on a fine sunshiny day, even with the 
snow on the ground, leaping from tree to tree up and down a hill in Simla, which is at about an elevation 
of 8,115 feet. All this is a mistake ; and it is the Langoor, not the Hoonuman, or Entellus, which 
does all this. It is the Langoor Monkey which Dr. Hoyle saw at an elevation of 9,000 feet during 
the summer months, and which Captain Hutton observed when on Hatu mountain, close to Simla, at 
an elevation of 10,650 feet, and at Simla during winter with snow four or five inches deep, and frost 
at night. 
Whether the Entellus is found in the Deccan, and to the south, appears to be matter of doubt ; 
but probably the long-tailed Monkeys, seen in multitudes near houses or only in the forests, belong to a 
Semnopithecus closely allied in shape and ornamentation to it. One, the emnopithecus Johnii , rarely 
leaves the forest lands, and is seen in Malabar. 
Evidently the natives do not discriminate between the species and the varieties of it, as we may. 
They consider all of them possibly to be endowed with the mind of an ancestor, and that it maybe their 
lot to have their soul placed within the body of some Monkey or other. 
They attribute to the Hoonuman the stealing of the delicious fruit the mango, and its introduction 
into Hindostan ; but the legend asserts that the hero Ape who did this, stole the fruit from the garden 
of a giant, who lived in Ceylon, and that afterwards he resolved to set fire to Ceylon, and destroy his 
enemies by a lighted tar-barrel tied to his tail ; but he burnt his hands and feet black, and they 
remain so to the present day. Unfortunately for the truth of this legend, the Entellus never 
was in Ceylon. 
The Entellus is occasionally to be seen in the Zoological Gardens of London, but it is a very 
delicate creature. It likes quiet play and some solemn stillness, and therefore it is not kept with the 
vivacious African Monkeys* but with the Long-tailed Americans. 
One of the most striking of the Semnopitheci is wonderfully like some of the Indians of the far 
west of America in their war-paint, so far as the head is concerned. This is — 
THE CROWNED MONKEY* 
Its colour is brown, becoming very dark and almost black on the back, loins, and outsides of the 
thighs, and around the fore-arms and lower leg. The muzzle is rather prominent, and there is a white 
patch over the nose on the forehead. The crest of long hair sticks up like that of a Cockatoo, and is 
rather brushed backwards, whilst a whisker, which is continuous with it, comes forward and 
hides the cheeks. 
All the proportions of the limbs are those of the genus, and the tail, which hangs down, is long 
and slender. It comes from Borneo. 
Semnopithecus frontatus. 
