A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 2 (of 2)Forbes, Henry O. (Henry Ogg)
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A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 2 (of 2)
Forbes, Henry O. (Henry Ogg)
Primates
_Simia leucisca_, Schreber, Säugeth. i., pl. iii. b. (1775).
_Pithecus leuciscus_, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 89 (1812).
{155}_Hylobates leuciscus_, Kuhl, Beitr. Zool., p. 6 (1820); Desmar.
Mamm., p. 51 (1820); Martin, Mammif. An., p. 416 (1841); Is. Geoffr.,
Cat. Méth. Primates, p. 7 (1851); Wagner, Schreb., Säugeth. Suppl. v., p.
16 (1855); Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 15 (1870); H. O. Forbes,
Nat. Wand. East. Arch., p. 70 (1875); Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 19
(1876); Anderson, Zool. Res. Exped. Yun-nan, p. 7 (1878; with full
synonymy).
B. _Bornean Race_ (_H. concolor_).
_Simia concolor_, Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil., v., p. 229 pl. ii.
(1827).
_Hylobates harlani_, Less., Bull. des Sc. Nat., xiii., p. 111 (1827).
_Hylobates concolor_, Schl., Essai Phys. Serp., p. 237 (1837); S. Müller,
Verhand. Gesch., p. 48 (1841); Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., x., p. 838 (1841);
Martin, Mammif. An., p. 417 (1841); Fry, P. Z. S., 1846, p. 15; Wagner in
Schreb. Säugeth. Suppl. v., p. 17 (1855; in part); Schleg., Mus.
Pays-Bas, vii., p. 20 (1876); Anderson, Zool. Res. Exped. Yun-nan, p. 11
(1878).
_Hylobates mülleri_, Martin, Mammif. Anim., p. 444 (1841); Is. Geoffr.,
Cat. Méth. Primates, p. 7 (1851); Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 21
(1876); Anderson, Zool. Res. Exped. Yun-nan, p. 8 (1878; with full
synonymy); Hose, Mammals of Borneo, p. 6 (1893).
_Hylobates funereus_, Is. Geoffr., C. R., xxxi., p. 874 (Dec., 1850);
Wagner in Schreb. Säugeth. Suppl. v., p. 18 (1855).
_? Hylobates fuscus_, Winslow Lewis, Bost. Journ. N. Hist., i., pt. i.,
p. 32, pls. i., ii. (1834).
CHARACTERS.--Fur thick, long and woolly. General colour ashy-grey, paler on
the lower back and rump; hair round {156}the face grey; superciliary streak
white; top of the head black; fingers and toes black.
This species has been found to possess occasionally a supernumerary finger
on each hand.
DISTRIBUTION.--The Indo-Malayan Sub-region. Java, Borneo, and the Sulu
Archipelago between Borneo and the Philippines.
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