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Show 312 MR. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE [^Pr- 3> Simpai, on the Batu Pahat, Sembrong, in Johore. Simpang, in Perak. Singapore, island and town, the capital of the Straits Settlements; with a Museum. Singora, on the east coast of the Peninsula, tributary to Siam. Sungei Pandang, a river in the south-west of Singapore Island. Sungei Ujong, a Malay State on the west of the Peninsula, protected and administered by England. Tahan River, in Pahang. Tahkamen, a village on the Bangpakong river in Siam, between Pachim and Kabin. Taiping, or Taipeng, the capital of Perak ; with a Museum. Tanjong Kopang, in Johore. Tapah, a town in the south of Perak. Taroar, in Junkceylon. Telok Anson, a port in the south of Perak. Temerloh, in Pahang. Tringganu, a Malay State on the east of the Peninsula, nominally subject to Siam. Ulu Langhat, in Selangor. Ulu Pahang, Upper Pahang. Wellesley Province, the 4th of the five " Straits Settlements," on the Peninsula opposite Penang. Capital, Butterworth. Order PRIMATES. Family SIMIID^:. The Gibbons (exclusive of the Siamang) are collectively known to the English in the Straits Settlements as " Waawaas." The Malays generally use the same term (written " W o w w o w " by Cantor, p. 2), and also " Uiigka etam " for the dark-coloured and " Ungka puti" for the light-coloured forms. The Siamese call them " Chanee." 1. HYLOBATES LAR (Linn.). The White-handed Gibbon. Hylobates lar, Blanf. Faun. Ind., M a m m . p. 7. Cantor (p. 2) records this species from the " Malayan Peninsula," and says " the colour varies from blackish brown to light brown, yellowish or dirty white, sometimes uniform, sometimes mottled." The only Malayan specimen I have seen is one in the Selangor Museum, dark brown in colour, obtained near Kuala Lumpor in Selangor. Iu December 1897 a dead gibbon of this species was brought to me in Bangkok, where it had died apparently in captivity; unfortunately I was unable to ascertain where it had been originally caught. Mr. Kelsall (Journal Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. no. 26,1894, p. 16) says of the species in Johore : " Hylobates albimanus, Vig. & Horsf., the common black W a u Wau. This species was fairly plentiful everywhere on the Indau and Sembrong rivers. It always goes in small troops." And Ridley (J. S. B. R. A. S. no. 25,1894, p. 57) writes it " is common in the Pahang jungles." |