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Show 1900.] MAMMALS OF SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA. 315 6. MACACUS ARCTOIDE3 IS. Geoffr. The Brown Stump-tailed Monkey. Macacus arctoides, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 17. Siamese. " Ling sayn." There is a stuffed specimen in the Siamese Museum, of unknown locality. Distribution. " Moupin in N.W. China, living on the snow-clad mountains ; Upper Burma (Bhamo) ; Siam ; the Cachar and Kachin hill-region on the western frontier of the Province of Yunnan, China ; North-west Borneo, on the mainland opposite Labuan." (Forbes, ' Handbook Primates,' ii. p. 8.) 7. MACACUS RUFESCENS Anderson. The Rufous Stump-tailed Monkey. Distribution. " Malay Peninsula." In Bangkok I saw a live monkey, said to have been caught in the Laos country, which may have been M. rufescens or a variety of M. arctoides; the general colour of its hair was a conspicuous yellow, the face brilliant red. It was a very large and powerfully built male: its ferocity prevented a closer examination. There is a short-tailed monkey called by the Siamese " Ling kabut." I did not succeed in finding out what it is ; but villagers on the Bangpakong River, to whom I showed some pictures of animals, pointed out the figure of Macacus leoninus on p. 19 of Blanford's Indian Mammals as the " Ling kabut." N.B.-Macacus leoninus (Blyth). Blanford, Faun. Ind.. Mamm. p. 20, says that Anderson has referred to this species a young animal from Perak, but that the identification was very questionable.1 Distribution. Burma, Andamans (introduced), Siam ('?). 8. MACACUS NEMESTRINUS (Linn.). The Pig-tailed Monkey. Papio nemestrinus, Cantor, p. 6. Macacus nemestrinus, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 20. " Berok" (pronounced " Broh ") of the Malays. " Broh " or " Coco-nut Monkey " of the English in the Straits Settlements. Cantor says the Broh is found in Penang and on the Peninsula; Ridley (Mamm. Malay Pen. p. 26) says it " is not really wild in Singapore, but it is frequently kept in captivity, and, often escaping, remains in a half-wild state, usually near the town. It is common in the Peninsula in the denser jungles." Ridley also records this species from Pahang (J. S. B. R. A. S. 1894, no. 25, p. 57). Kelsall records it from Gunong Janeng, Johore (J. S. B. R. A. S. 1894, no. 26, p. 16). In the Museum at Taiping there are several 1 Sclater (P. Z. S. 1898, p. 280) mentions a fine adult male Macacus leoninus living in the Marseilles Zoological Gardens, which is stated to have been brought from Siam. |
