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Show 948 CAPT. T. HU'ITON ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL [NoY. 28, This clearly shows that the animal cannot bear even so slight a change of climate northward as Muttra and Bindrabun, and that it is certainly not indigenous in the neighbourhood; it accounts likewise for the difficulty of preserving the animal alive for any time in Europe. These facts might be allowed to settle the question of range; for it is certain that the Entellus does not voluntarily cross the Jumna, or the Ganges, and therefore cannot wander up to the Himalaya mountains-besides that it could not live in such a climate, being seldom able even to round the Cape of Good Hope, and never long surviving its arrival in Europe. The itinerant showmen from Meerutt declare that the Entellus may be seen at present in small parties between that place and Delhi, and that there are a few at Agra; but then, at the same time, they candidly acknowledge that the animal has been recently introduced there by fakirs and devotees. In the extensive province of Oudh, stretching far along the left bank of the Ganges, the Entellus does not occur indigenous. This I have ascertained from several natives of that country, who declare that, if ever seen, it is near some temple where the fakirs have introduced them. One man informed me that, when he was quite a boy, he once saw one of these animals which was supposed to have crossed the Ganges accidentally on some boat or uprooted tree, the animal's advent being regarded by the natives as an auspicious event, and crowds assembling to see and to salaam to it. This appears to prove that the left bank of the Ganges is not the natural habitat of the species, since no notice would have been taken of the arrival of a single solitary individual had the species been common in the province. The long-tailed monkeys sometimes seen in the Nipal Terai are nothing more than the Himalayan Lungoor, a totally distinct species, known as Semnopithecus schistaceus; and, indeed, another native of Oudh informs m e that, while the common Bunder is abundant throughout the province, the Entellus does not occur there, and that the long-tailed monkey sometimes seen in the Nipal Terai, or forest at the foot of the mountains, was the Hill Lungoor, and the only one of the genus to be met with. There is, again, good reason to think that much of the confusion which prevails in regard to the geographical range of the species may have arisen from the fact that many of the natives have got into a habit of applying the name of Hoonoomaun to the common Rhesus, which actually does extend from Bengal, not exactly into the Himalaya, but up to the outer or southern boundary of the Dehra Doon, at perhaps a distance from the mountains of twenty-five to thirty miles. In the Punjab, again, the Entellus does not occur; and I am inclined to restrict its range, somewhat loosely perhaps, to between 10° and 25u of north latitude, and 75° to 88° of east longitude, forming with the line drawn across the country from Allahabad to Boondee, a triangular range entirely south of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges. It does not, therefore, approach the foot of the Southern |
