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
CHARACTERS.--Nearly allied to _S. entellus_. Face flattened and black;
muzzle long and broad; head without a crest; some long superciliary hairs
projecting in front, black; whiskers long, running down to the chin, and
projecting outwards and backwards, partly concealing the ears, and of a
reddish-yellow colour; beard short, also reddish-yellow; hair on the top of
the head longer than on the back of the head and temples, black or dark
ashy-grey, washed, especially on the front of the head, with rufous; neck,
back, upper part of arm, lower portion of the fore-arm, outside of the
thighs, and tail (except the tufted tip, which is black), ashy-grey--all
these parts being slightly washed with rufous; hands and feet, black;
remainder of the limbs rufous; throat, chest, and fore part of the under
surface, rich {104}orange-yellow, paler on the hind part of the belly and
on the inner side of the limbs. Length of body, 18 inches; of tail, 28½
inches, and with the tuft, 31 inches. Cranium globular; supra-orbital
ridges not prominent.
The young have the fur soft, silky, and rather long, and are much paler
than the adults, and of a soft delicate grey, yellowish-white taking the
place of the rufous colour of the adults. (_Anderson._)
DISTRIBUTION.--Northern Assam, Arracan, Upper Burma, and Tenasserim. Dr.
Anderson observed a troop of this species at Tsingu Myo on the left bank of
the Irawaddy, at the lower end of the first defile.
HABITS.--This species lives in small troops in the forest. When young it is
of a mild disposition; but, when fully adult, the males are ill-natured and
fierce.
III. THE HANUMAN LANGUR. SEMNOPITHECUS ENTELLUS.
_L'entelle_, Audeb., Singes, Fam. V., sect. ii., fig. 2 (1797).
_Simia entellus_, Dufresne, Bull. Soc. Philom., i., p. 49 (1797).
_Cercopithecus entellus_, Latr., Hist. Nat. Buff., xxxvi., p. 283 (1809).
_Semnopithecus entellus_, Desm., Dict. Class. H. Nat., vii., p. 568
(1825); Sykes, P. Z. S., 1831, p. 199; Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., xii.
(1843), p. 169; xiii. (1844), p. 470; Hutton, P. Z. S., 1867, p. 944;
Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 14 (1870); Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas,
vii., p. 60 (1876); Anderson, Rep. Zool. Exped. Yun-nan p. 15 (1878; with
full synonymy); Blanford, Faun. Brit. Ind., Mamm., p. 27 (1891).
_Semnopithecus anchises_, Elliot; Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., xiii. (1844), p.
470; xvi. (1847), p. 733.
{105}_Presbytis entellus_, Gray, Hand-List Brit. Mus., p. 4 (1843; in
part); Blyth., _op. cit._, xvi., pp. 732, 1271, pl. liv., fig. 1 1847;
id., Cat. Mamm. As. Soc. Mus., p. 11 (1863); Jerdon, Mamm. Ind., p. 4
(1867).
_Semnopithecus albogularis_, Müll. u. Schl., Verh. Nat. Gesch., 1839-44,
p. 58 (_fide Anderson_).
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