The Singhalese have the impression that the remains of a Monkey are never to be found in the forest; a belief which they have embodied in the proverb that "he who has seen a white Crow, the nest of a paddi bird, a straight coco-nut tree, or a dead Monkey, is certain to live for ever." This piece of folk-lore has evidently reached Ceylon from India, where it is believed that persons dwelling on the spot where a Hanuman Monkey, _Semnopithecus entellus_, has been killed, will die, and that even its bones are unlucky, and that no house erected where they are hid underground can prosper; and Buchanan observes that "it is perhaps owing to this fear of ill-luck that no native will acknowledge his having seen a dead Hanuman." VI. THE MALABAR LANGUR. SEMNOPITHECUS HYPOLEUCUS. _Semnopithecus hypoleucos_, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., x., p. 839 (1841); xiii., p. 470 (1844); Anderson, Res. Zool. Exped. Yun-nan, p. 20 (1878; with full synonymy); Blanford, Faun. Brit. India, Mamm., p. 33 (1891). _Semnopithecus johnii_, var., Martin, Mammif. Anim., p. 489 (1841); Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 14 (1870). _Semnopithecus dussumieri_, Is. Geoffr., C. R., xv., p. 719 (1842); id., Descr. An. Nouv. Fam. des Singes, p. 54, pl. xxx.; id., Cat. Méth. Primates, p. 13 (1851); Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 62 (1876). _Presbytis hypoleucos_, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., xvi. (1847), p. 733. _Presbytis johnii_ (nec Fischer), Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., xxviii., p. 283 (1859); id., Cat. Mam. As. Soc. Mus., p. 12 (1863); Jerd., Mamm. India, p. 7 (1867). {111}CHARACTERS.--Similar to _S. entellus_. No crest; hair radiating on crown; back, sides, posterior aspect of thighs and tail dusky brown, darker on the middle of the back; fore-arm, front of thighs, and lower portion of legs, black; head dirty yellow; under surface yellowish-white; face, hands, and feet, black. Length of body, 21 inches; of tail, 32 inches. YOUNG.--Sooty-brown. DISTRIBUTION.--The forests and woods near cultivation along the Malabar coast of India, below 1,500 feet. HABITS.--Same as those of the Hanuman. It is, however, rather more shy. VII. THE NILGIRI LANGUR. SEMNOPITHECUS JOHNI. _Simia johnii_, Fischer, Syn. Mamm., i., p. 25 (1829). _Semnopithecus cucullatus_, Is. Geoffr. in Bélang. Voy. Zool., pp. 38, 72, pl. i. (1834); Wagner in Schreber Säugeth. Suppl., i., p. 98 (1846); Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 14 (1870). _Semnopithecus johnii_, Waterh., Cat. Mamm. Mus. Zool. Soc., p. 5 (1838); Anderson, Res. Zool. Exped. Yun-nan, p. 21 (1878; with synonymy); Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind., Mamm., p. 33 (1891); Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 50 (1876). _Semnopithecus jubatus_, Wagner in Schreb. Säugeth. Suppl., i., p. 305 (1840); Horsf., Cat. Mamm. E. Ind. Co. Mus., p. 14 (1851). _Semnopithecus cephalopterus_, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., xiii., p. 469 (1844; in part). _Presbytis johnii_, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., xvi., pp. 734, 1272 (1847).