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Show 1899.] MR. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE PROBOSCIS MONKEY. 785 EXPLANATION OF PLATE LI. Fig. 1. Clay-nodule with skull, pelvis, femur, and other bones of Prophaethon shrubsolei (type specimen). Natural size. Fig. 2. Occipital surface of skull of Prophaethon shrubsolei. Natural size. a.t., antitrochanter. cb.p., cerebellar prominence. /'., femur. i.o.s., interorbital septum. i.o.f., interorbital fenestra. it., ilium. is., ischium. juff; jugal. l.s., surface for lachrymal. m.t., mammillary tuberosities. n., external nares. n.g., narial groove. oc.c, occipital condyle. o.p., orbital process of quadrate. p.o.p., postorbital process. p.p., paroccipital process. pit., pubis. q., quadrate. r., ribs. r.h., rostral hinge. s., sacrum. sc, scapula. sq., squamosal. t., tibio-tar.sus. t.f., temporal fossa. 2. Note on the Proboscis Monkey, Nasalis larvatus (Wurmb). By STANLEY S. FLOWER, F.Z.S. [Received M a y 15, 1899.] An attempt has recently been made to obtain living specimens of the Proboscis Monkey, Nasalis larvatus (Wurmb), for the Egyptian Government's Zoological Gardens at Ghizeh. Through the kind intervention of Jonkbeer P. J. F. M . Van der Does de Willebois, Agent and Consul-General for the Netherlands in Cairo, five individuals were procured in Borneo and despatched via Singapore for Egypt. Only three reached the Suez Canal alive, and were landed at Port Said in very poor condition, one dying within a few hours of being landed. The two survivors were kindly looked after by Sanieh F. Dixon Bey and sent by train to Cairo. They arrived at the Ghizeh Zoological Gardens on the evening of April 4,1899, an adult female cold and apparently dead, and a young male looking ill and listless. Ever}thing possible was done for them; the female revived for a time under the influence of a warm fire and a dose of gin, but died next morning ; the male, however, rallied, and after some days got apparently quite well and active, but unfortunately died suddenly on May 4, 1899, having been just one month in the Gardens. I send sketches of the profiles of these two animals (figs. 1 & 2, p. 786), taken from life. Habits. This young male Proboscis Monkey was of a very gentle and affectionate disposition and not at all mischievous ; it reminded us very much of a young Siamese Lutong (Semnopithecus germaini) we once had in captivity, and also of young Gibbons, in the way it held on to one with its hands and evidently liked to be caressed. O n the steamer it had been fed on bananas, so we continued giving it the same food when it would take them, but some days it refused bananas and was given dates and bread, which it ate in small quantities. When eating, the elongated nose moved up and down with the action of tbe jaws, in a ridiculous-looking manner. Its most curious habit was its fondness for water : when set at liberty in |
