THE JJOUCS. 
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THE RED SEMN0P1THECUS* 
This is an active little Monkey, and a great tree climber ; it greatly resembles the last in shape, 
but it has a shorter muzzle, and the whole body is a bright reddish-brown, the face being blue and 
naked, the eyes hazel. A crest of hair sticks up on the top of the head, and the bulk of it points 
backwards, whilst the front comes over the forehead like thatch, and the whiskers are brushed 
outwards. It is called Kalassi in Borneo. 
This diversity of colouring, which must astonish every one who has seen Temminck’s beautiful 
plates of the Semnopitheci, must be received cautiously as a proof of the different colours meaning 
different kinds. For in Semnopitheeus clirysomeles the male is dark brown, and only lighter in tint 
underneath, whilst the female is light brown, with a splash or two of black on the front legs. They 
both have blue faces. In this instance the female and the male might have been called by different 
names. The same thing occurs in the Sumatran Monkey, in which the female is light brown and 
the male is a most extraordinary -looking yellow. His hair seems brushed back most violently, the 
blue face is very short and straight ; he has a reddish chin, a white throat, inside of arms, and legs, 
and belly, and under part of tail, but all the rest is black, with a shade of lighter tint behind the ears 
and on the back. 
All these are very curious-looking when young, for then the head appears too big for the body, and 
the stomach is always large ; moreover, the little Proboscis Monkey looks like a boy with his hair 
parted down the front, and who has a blue face and a tail. 
THE DOUC, OR VARIEGATED MONKEY, f 
This Monkey is perhaps the most gaily clad of all this group, and in this departs in a most 
marked manner from the dull sameness of the fur of the Apes already described in the former chapters. 
Not only is the long hair very different in colour in several parts of the body, but the hairs themselves 
are variegated, having bands of various tints upon them, differing thus from the whole-coloured hairs 
of the great Apes. 
The animal has the usual shape of the Semnopitheci ; but the whiskers brushed back, as they 
appear to be, make the naked and orange-coloured face look broad. These whiskers are long, and are 
of glossy whiteness, and above they join the hair of the forehead, which is black in front, gradually 
becoming grizzled grey. This is the tint of the head, and of the back of the neck and back. The 
thighs, fingers, and toes are black, the legs and ankles are bright red, fore-arms, throat, and underneath 
the legs, the buttocks, and the tail are pure white, and the white throat is surrounded by a more or 
less complete circle of bright red. They live in the woods of Cochin China, and have been met with 
not far from the coast. They assemble in troops, but appear to be good tempered and easily frightened, 
and this appears to be all that is known of their nature. But they yielded to the researches of the 
anatomist the same internal arrangement of the cavities of the stomach which has been noticed in 
describing the Long-nosed Monkey. 
THE BLACK-LEGGED DOUC + 
The forests on the banks of the Me-kong, near Saigon in Cochin China, are tenanted by a fine 
Done which, instead of having the red legs of the true Douc ( Semnopitheeus nemceus), has them 
of a black colour from the root of the tail to the tips of the toes. Moreover, in this animal the fore 
legs are greyish-black, dotted with white, whilst those of the other Douc are whitish. Of coui'se 
these distinctions are not sufficient to separate these Doucs specifically, and they must be considered 
races or local varieties, the black-footed one living more to the south than the other. If this be 
correct, and it must be on the principle that a negro and a white man are only races of the genus 
Homo, and that a black and a white rabbit are of the same kind, colour is a point of little 
importance. 
The Black-legged Douc has its face almost naked, and surmounted by a band of hairs on the 
forehead. These stand out. and are directed forwards. In the other Douc these hairs, of a less black 
Semnop ithccus rub icundus . 
t Semnopitheeus nemceus. 
X Semnopitheeus nigripes. 
