. Anatomical and zoological researches: comprising an account of the zoological results of the two expeditions to western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875; and a monograph of the two cetacean genera, Platanista and Orcella. MACACUS. 63. Fig. 6.—Upper aspect of the skull fig. 5. | nat. size. The female skull also is fully adult, and it differs from the male in its much smaller size, and in being smooth and rounded, the frontals arching upwards and backwards from the supraorbital margins, which do not form ridges. In aged females, however the supraorbital ridges become well marked, also the temporal ridg
. Anatomical and zoological researches: comprising an account of the zoological results of the two expeditions to western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875; and a monograph of the two cetacean genera, Platanista and Orcella. MACACUS. 63. Fig. 6.—Upper aspect of the skull fig. 5. | nat. size. The female skull also is fully adult, and it differs from the male in its much smaller size, and in being smooth and rounded, the frontals arching upwards and backwards from the supraorbital margins, which do not form ridges. In aged females, however the supraorbital ridges become well marked, also the temporal ridges. A monkey resembling M. rhesus occurs in Kashmir, and is sometimes found at an elevation of 10,000 feet. It is described as being a redder monkey than M. rhesus, with a perfectly distinct cry. It is called by the natives the Funj or Fonj. Its specific characters are unknown, but should it resemble the monkey which lived a few years ago in the Zoological Gardens, London, where it was known as the Kashmir mon- key {M. pelops), it would appear not to differ specifically from M. rhesus. This animal, however, supposed to be from Kashmir, was purchased either at Agra or Delhi from a native who asserted that it came from Kashmir; but knowing how freely the term " Kashmir" is employed by natives who consider that the value of an object is enhanced in the eyes of Europeans by its being assigned to Kashmir, no reliance can be placed on the alleged habitat. At the same time this so-called Kashmir monkey now depo- sited in the British Museum (71. 3. 3. 5.) has the rufous colouring of the hinder half of the body more brilliant than in the generality of examples of M. rhesus from the plains, but with the colours conforming to the same kind and distribution, so that the differences between them are only of that grade which is generally considered as distinctive of a race. Hodgson has also figured in his manuscript drawings a pale, almost albino-like, Macaque from Sikhim, but no
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