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otlier points of the peninsula beyond the Granges, belong to 
a species known under the name of Hylobates albimanus, 
which is the great Gibbon of Buffon, or the true Lar of 
Gmelin. Of the two Semnopitheci common in the Isle 
of Java, one, the Semn. mitratus, is peculiar to that 
island ; but there is found in Siam a monkey entirely 
analogous, though with darker tints ; the other, the Semn. 
maurus, has never been observed in any other part of the 
globe ; but this species is evidently replaced in Sumatra 
and Borneo by the Semn. cristatus or pruinosus, which 
appears not to differ from the Maurus but by its fur being 
mingled with grey. A third species is said to exist in the 
eastern part of Java, but we have not yet received from 
that island the Semn. auratus^ or pyrrhus, which ap- 
pears to belong to a species that inhabits the Isle of Borneo. 
Java is far less rich in squirrels than the other isles of the 
Straits ; we there find the Sciurus bicolor, S. nigro- 
vittatus, S. insignis, and S. melanotis, but none of these 
species are peculiar to that island. The Tiipajas do not 
there attain the great size of those of Borneo and Suma- 
tra. The Boyal Tiger, which does not seem to inhabit 
Borneo, nor any other isle of Malayasia, with the excep- 
tion of Sumatra, here forms, as in the latter island, a local 
variety, with very short hair ; and this variety forms the 
extreme opposite to the Tiger of the North of Asia, to 
which the long fur gives a very different appearance. f The 
Island of Java breeds a fine Boar of very large size, Sus 
verrucosus, differing much from another species, Sus 
vittatus, which inhabits equally Java, and almost all other 
parts of Malayasia. One of the most remarkable quadru- 
peds of Java is the Wild Buffalo, the Banting of the na- 
* The yellowish livery of this monkey is evidently periodic, or per- 
haps due to sexual difference. The specimen in the Museum of Paris 
presents indications of black hairs on the extremities ; we have speci- 
mens in our museum in the livery of moult ; others are wholly black, 
with the exception of a yellow stripe on the inner part of the feet, and 
under the tail. 
t On comparing in our museum specimens of the Tiger of Corea 
with those of Java, we rq.ay convince ourselves of this effect of climate, 
particularly on examining the relative thickness of the tail : in the first, 
this member appears about the thickness of the arm ; in those of Java 
it has that of a man’s thumb. 
