. Animals in menageries. s scanty:the face is naked, slightly wrinkled, and of a bluishcolour; and the facial line is so remarkably straight as tobe almost perpendicular: the palms and soles of thefeet are black ; the thumbs of the hands very small, andthe callosities large : the tail is very long and tapering,and exceeds thirty inches in length: the hair is long,soft, and silky. The Crested Monkey. Semnopithecus cristatus, Sw. Simia cristata, Raffles, xiii. Semnopithecus coraatus ? F. Cuvier, Majn., Des~marest. This is another very remarkable monkey from Su-matra, also described by s
. Animals in menageries. s scanty:the face is naked, slightly wrinkled, and of a bluishcolour; and the facial line is so remarkably straight as tobe almost perpendicular: the palms and soles of thefeet are black ; the thumbs of the hands very small, andthe callosities large : the tail is very long and tapering,and exceeds thirty inches in length: the hair is long,soft, and silky. The Crested Monkey. Semnopithecus cristatus, Sw. Simia cristata, Raffles, xiii. Semnopithecus coraatus ? F. Cuvier, Majn., Des~marest. This is another very remarkable monkey from Su-matra, also described by sir Stamford Raffles. It seemsto be the same as the Semnopithecus comatus of the twoFrench collectors, ]\IM. Diard and Duvaucel: thesegentlemen were employed by our illustrious countrymenas his assistants ; but, availing themselves, most impro-perly, of this patronage, they endeavoured, in manyinstances, to anticipate the discoveries of sir Stamford,by sending to Europe descriptions and specimens of new CRESTED MONKEY. 17. animals first discovered by their patron. Whether thiswas done^ however, in the present instance, is somewhatuncertain; but the general fact is unquestionable, andwill serve to explain whynearly aU the new quadru-peds of Sumatra, discoveredby sir Stamford Raffles, havereceived different namesfrom his French F. Cuvier, in his beau-tiful, but not very scien-tific, work on quadrupeds,has figured the S. comatus(of which the head alone ishere copied, fig. 3.); whilethe description of sir Stam-fords S. cristata is nearlyas follows : —The length of the body is about two feet; the tailmeasuring near two and a half: when the animal standson all fours, it is fourteen inches high. The colour isdark grey; the hairs being in general black with whitepoints. The face, fore arms, hands, feet, back, andupper part of the body is pale. (The same colour, in ahorse, would be called iron-grey, or grey with blackpoints.) The disposition of the hairs on the head ispec
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