A Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company |
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Abyssinia adult Asiatic Society B. H. Hodgson Babirusa Beng Blyth Borneo Bruh Budeng Cercopithecus Chingkau Collection of Insects Collection of Mammalia colour consisting of specimens cynomolgus Desmar Desmarest du Mus EAST-INDIA COMPANY Edward Blyth Esq.-A Collection Esq.-Specimens of Mammalia forests Fred Gesl Government.-The GUEREZA habits hairs Hanumán Himalayas Hoolock Horsfield Hylobates variegatus J. T. Pearson Java John McClelland Jour Linn LUNGOOR LUTUNG M.D.-Drawings of Mammalia Macacus radiatus Mamm Mammalia and Birds Martin Quadrumana melalophos menageries Monographisch overzicht Müller natives of Sumatra naturalists nearly allied nemestrinus Ogilby Papio pileatus Presented by Sir Raffles Sp Reptiles Rüppell Saength Schreber Semnopithecus auratus Semnopithecus cristatus Semnopithecus entellus Semnopithecus flavimanus Semnopithecus Johnii Semnopithecus maurus Semnopithecus priamus Semnopithecus pyrrhus Siamang Simia maura SIMIE Species Simpai Sir T. S. Raffles Society of Bengal syndactyla synonymy Syst tail Theodor Cantor THOMAS HORSFIELD Trans tuft Zool Zoological Collections
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Page 2 - ... the tickling sensation produced by the brush on his belly and legs. He would turn from side to side, first hold out one arm and then the other, and when I attempted to go away, he would catch hold of my arm or coat.
Page 9 - Java ; it forms its dwelling on trees, and associates in numerous societies. Troops, consisting of more than fifty individuals, are often found together. In meeting them in the forests, it is prudent to observe them at a distance. They emit loud screams on the approach of man; and by the violent bustle and commotion excited by their movements, branches of decaying trees are not unfrequently detached, and precipitated on the spectators. They are often chased by the natives for the purpose of obtaining...
Page 3 - Gibbon (hylobates agilis) is said by M. Duvaucel to possess extraordinary activity. The velocity of its movements, says he, is wonderful : it escapes like a bird on the wing ; scarcely does it perceive danger, but it is already far away. Ascending rapidly to the top of a tree, it there seizes a flexible branch, swings itself two or three times to gain the requisite impetus, and then launches itself forward, repeatedly clearing in succession, without effort and without fatigue, spaces of forty feet.
Page 6 - On the Simla side I observed them also, leaping and playing about, while the fir-trees, among which they sported, were loaded with snow-wreaths, at an elevation of 11,000 feet."— Jour.
Page 6 - Lungoors, and took a leisurely survey of them ; they were dark grayish, with pale hands and feet, white head, dark face, white throat and breast, and white tip to the tail...
Page 4 - Their bodies are slightly made ; their limbs long and slender ; their tails of great length, considerably exceeding that of the body ; their callosities of small size, and their cheek-pouches, in those species which appear to possess them, so inconsiderable, as scarcely to deserve the name.
Page 6 - Dark slaty above ; head and lower parts, pale yellowish ; hands concolorous with body, or only a little darker ; tail slightly tufted ; hair on the crown of the head, short and radiated, on the cheeks long, directed backwards and covering the ears.
Page 6 - Hodgson gives the first authentic account of it in the ninth volume of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal...
Page 7 - Behind the ears is a small tuft of white hairs. The tail is long, darker near the end, and tufted.
Page 4 - Cercopithecus they are strikingly distinguished by the form of the last molar tooth in the lower jaw, which, instead of four, has five tubercles.