there is a specimen in the Calcutta Museum said to have been brought from Tipperah. To the eastward this form is found in the Kakhyen hills of Upper Burma and also in Cochin China.
Habits. Nothing is definitely known of this monkey in the wild state. It is said to be a hill species.
Blyth refers the present form to M. speciosus of F. Cuvier, a name generally applied to a Japanese species, and Anderson is disposed to concur. M. speciosus is said by Temminck ('Fauna Japonica') to have been founded on a drawing by Diard or Duvaucel of a monkey living at Barrackpur near Calcutta. The figure resembles a pig-tailed Monkey (M. nemestrinus) with most of its tail cut off as much as it does either M. arctoides or the Japanese species. I agree Aith Anderson that the name M. speciosus should be dropped.
A stump-tailed monkey of rufous-brown coloration, said to be from the Malay Peninsula, has been named M. rufescens by Anderson (P. Z. S. 1872, pp. 204, 495, pl. xxiv); and two other forms, M. maurus and M. ocreatus, inhabit some of the Malay islands, A very large form, M. tibetanus, has been described from Moupin, in Eastern Tibet, by A. M.-Edwards. In his latest work Anderson has united this form to M. arctoides.
I am informed by Mr. W. Davison that he had for some time alive a monkey of a kind apparently allied to M. arctoides, which had been captured by a shikari near Bankasun in the extreme south of Tenasserim. Mr. Davison has also seen a second specimen, a female, his own being a male. Unfortunately the first specimen was subsequently lost. These animals were of a pale cream-colour throughout, slightly tinged with rusty on the shoulders and back; face and hands flesh-coloured. The tail was quite rudimentary, less than an inch long, and turned on one side in both specimens, so that at the first glance both appeared to be tailless. Both were very small, although shown to be adults by the teeth,—each being not above 15 inches high when it stood erect. They had a sharp piercing voice, and exhaled a peculiar fetid odour. The one kept by Mr. Davison was excessively insectivorous, and preferred insects to fruit or bread. These monkeys apparently belonged to an undescribed species.
It is quite possible, too, that the large tailless ape seen by Mr. Davison and Captain Bingham in the Tenasserim mountains, and described in the notes on Hylobates lar (ante, p. 9), may be an ally of M. arctoides, though apparently much larger than that species.
7. Macacus leoninus. The Burmese pig-tailed Monkey.
- Inuus leoninus, Blyth, Cat. p. 7 (1863); id. Mam. Birds Burma, p. 4.
- Macacus andamanensis, Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 467.
- Macacus leoninus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 663, pl. xxxv; Anderson, An. Zool. Res. p. 52; id. Cat. p. 71.
Myouk-mai, Burm.; Myouk-la-haing, Arakan.
