. Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo . overed witha rather thick coat of moderately long but fine fur, of a uniformdark-brown color. I shot in the neighborhood several specimensof the common gray monkey {llacacus cynomolgus), a pig-tailed ma-caque {M. nemestrinus), here called the broque in Malay, fromwhich the outlandish common name of bruh has been evolved. One day a party of Dyaks amved from the head of the SibuyauRiver, between the Sadong and Batang Lupar, bringing severalfragmentary skins of argus pheasant,
. Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo . overed witha rather thick coat of moderately long but fine fur, of a uniformdark-brown color. I shot in the neighborhood several specimensof the common gray monkey {llacacus cynomolgus), a pig-tailed ma-caque {M. nemestrinus), here called the broque in Malay, fromwhich the outlandish common name of bruh has been evolved. One day a party of Dyaks amved from the head of the SibuyauRiver, between the Sadong and Batang Lupar, bringing severalfragmentary skins of argus pheasant, which had been taken off innative fashion for the wing and tail feathers, and also a live poor bird had had a hard time of it, and in looking at it I feltguilty of cruelty to animals. In its struggles it had lost half itsbody feathers, and, worst of all, when it was caught in the nooseone of its legs had been dislocated. I lost no time in putting itbeyond the reach of further pain. The Sibuyau people told me that argus pheasants and animalsof many kinds I had not yet found were plentiful around their vil-. HEAD OF CYNOGALE BENKETTII. {SketcJiea from life.)
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