A Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the Hon East India Company

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3textit{filamentosa) in abundance, the fruit of which is his most favourite food. We never met with the Chingkau in the more elevated ridges. The small companies which we encountered in Borneo, were in localities not exceeding a few hundred feet above the ocean ; and in Sumatra, we found him alone on the alluvial plains at the foot of the rid

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ge extending along the sea-shore." " The Chingkau is cautious, cunning, and possesses a remarkable dexterity to conceal himself from his pursuers. His cry resembles that of the textit{S. maurus, but is not so full. His motions in the tops of the trees resemble those of the common Marten."?(Monogr. Overzicht, and c. pp. 77, 78.) Genus Sbmnopithects, textit{Fred. Cuv. textit{General List of Species enumerated by Zoological writers in 1848. I. From Continental India. 1. Semnopithecus entellus, textit{Dufresne Sp. 2. Semnopithecus schistaceus, textit{Hodgson, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. IX. p. 1212, textit{X. p. 907. 3. Semnopithecus pileatus, textit{Blyth, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. XII. p. 174,5, textit{XIII. p. 476, textit{XVI. 735. 4. Semnopithecus hypoleucos, textit{Blyth, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. X.p. 839, textit{XII. p. 170, textit{XIII. p. 469, textit{XVI. p. 733. 5. Semnopithecus argentatus, textit{Blyth, MS. textit{6. Semnopithecus Johnii, textit{Fischer Sp. 7. Semnopithecus priamus, textit{Elliot, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. XIII. p. 470, textit{XVI. p. 732. textit{Figured on pi. Liv. textit{fig. 2. S. Semnopithecus anchises, textit{Elliot, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. XIII. pp. 470, 476, textit{XVI. p. 733. 9. Semnopithecus Phayrei, textit{Blyth, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. XVI. p. 733. 10. Semnopithecus Barbei (?), textit{Blyth, N. S. ? Jour. As. Soc. Beng. XVI. p. 734. 11. Semnopithecus thersites, textit{Elliot, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. XVI.p. 1271. textit{Figured ...

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