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Show 628 DR. J. ANDERSON ON A NEW MONKEY. [Nov. 7, and very much rounded, the outer rectrices being more than an inch and a half shorter than the middle. The total length of the skin of the female was IO5 inches, of the wing 6. The following extracts were read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by Dr. J. Anderson, F.Z.S., Director of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, dated June 17th, 1871*.- " I have received a specimen of a short-tailed Macacus from Bhamo unlike any Monkey I know, but more allied to M. nemestrinus than to M. leoninus. It is a hill Monkey. I first became acquainted with the species in the hills to the east of Bhamo and obtained a specimen, which I sent down to Bhamo to wait m y return from Yunan. When I got back to Bhamo I was told that the Monkey had died and had been buried. About a year and a half after m y visit to Bhamo a Mr. Stewart, from Rangoon, visited it and brought away the specimen that is now in m y possession, and which exactly resembles the specimen I sent to Bhamo from the Kakyen hills-so much so, indeed, that I am inclined to the belief that m y lost pet has been restored to me. The following is its description :- " MACACUS BRUNNEUS, sp. nov. " Body short and stout; head rather large; limbs short, stout, and powerful; hands and fingers short, the latter rather full and much like those of Simia. The fingers are very sparsely clad, covered on their flesh-coloured upper surfaces with a few longish greyish-yellow hairs, which are more numerous on the toes. The terminal phalanges of each extremity are nude. The face is reddish flesh-coloured, the tint being most intense round about the eyes. The centre of the upper eyelid transversely has a bluish tint, the remainder being red. The muzzle is short, moderately pointed, and abruptly truncated. The lips are moderately full, and the chin is rather bulging. The nose is but slightly prominent, and marked at its apex by a vertical, longitudinal fine groove. The eyes are large and soft in expression, as in Simia satyrus. The face is much wrinkled transversely. Ear rather large, with an almost rounded outline, but with a small rather pointed projection posteriorly at the junction of the posterior and superior margins; it is quite nude on its posterior surface, and with only a few straggling greyish-yellow hairs on its outer aspect. Fur long, thick, and woolly, longest on the back (2-| inches), shoulders, limbs, and shortest and most dense on the sacral region. Chin and throat almost bare. Hair sparse on the chest and abdomen. A single flesh-coloured callosity below the tail triangular in form, the apex of the triangle being placed downwards ; greatest transverse breadth 2 inches, greatest length 2 inches. The hair on the head is parted longitudinally down the centre on the anterior half of the head above the bridge of the nose, the hair being directed outwards on either side. General colour dark brown, darkest on the head, rump, and arms, paler on the sides of the |
