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Show 946 CAPT. T. HUTTON ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL [Nov. 28» As there can be no doubt but the forest is the natural haunt of this and other species, the fact of its being now so frequently found in groves in the vicinity of towns and villages is owing chiefly, if not entirely, to the veneration which often prompts the superstitious natives to introduce the creature into such places, where they are sure to be well fed and protected. This is clearly enough seen in the case of the Kishnagur Monkeys above mentioned by Mr. Blyth, which were introduced to that place many years ago by devotees, and have now increased and multiplied to such an extent as to have become a perfect pest. This fact was lately reported in ' The Delhi Gazette' of the 2nd of March, 1867, wherein a letter from a Calcutta correspondent states that a petition was presented by a large number of the native community praying that measures might be taken by the municipality to destroy some of the too numerous Monkeys that infested the station, causing fearful havoc amongst the fruit and grain. An order was issued, and five hundred Monkeys were killed. " There must be many thousands," continues the writer ; " and all are descended from one pair originally brought to Kishnagur and let loose. This was soon succeeded by another petition from a different section of the native population, for the cancelment of the order to kill what they described as their long-deceased ancestors." The true Entellus does not occur at all in Ceylon, although such has been stated to be the fact, but is entirely confined to the mainland, the name of Hoonoomaun being applied in Ceylon to another species, as it is on the continent of India to several others-and hence, in part, the confusion that prevails in regard to the true range of the Entellus. Sir Walter Elliot gives the measurements of an adult male from the Southern Mahratta country as being, " from the muzzle to the insertion of the tail 1 ft. 10| in.; length of the tail 3 ft. 2 | in.; height from heel to crown 3 ft. 2\ in.; weight 22 lbs." To this Mr. Blyth adds the colours as " constantly black hands and feet; the forearm, and leg externally, with the croup are of a pale chocolat-au- lait colour, extending more or less over the back, humerus, and thigh; and the rest is of a light straw-colour, or pale isabelline, with occasionally a tinge of ferruginous on the belly." With regard to the distribution of the Entellus, the species is entirely restricted by nature to the right or southern banks of the Rivers Ganges and Jumna, the latter, as I think, bounding its northern range. It thus occupies parts of the southern Gangetic provinces, the Dukhun, and the Carnatic, down to the Malabar coasts, which form together a wide triangular geographical area. It has, indeed, been said to occur in Assam, which would carry it far across the Ganges to the eastward ; but there is, I believe, no reliable instance on record of its having been procured from that eastern province. All that Mr. Blyth ventures to say on the subject is, that he has been " assured of its occurrence in Assam, though he never saw a specimen from that province." lam therefore inclined to think that some other species, probably Semnopithecus pileatus, has there been mistaken for it, |