MALE.--Dark rich olive-yellow; face pale flesh-colour; sides of the face, neck, and front part of the body olive-grey; hinder parts of the body brick-red; the slaty colour of the fore-limbs, and of the anterior aspect of the legs becoming black on the hands and feet; ears flesh-colour; callosities crimson; throat, chest, and inside of the fore-limbs greyish, washed with rufous above the wrists; belly and inside of the hind limbs greyish, washed with orange-red.
FEMALE.--Fawn-colour, washed with red, especially on the lower back. Face brighter coloured than in the male. Tail one-fourth the length of the body.
Skull more massive, shorter, and markedly broader and with a more vertical muzzle than _M. rhesus_.
DISTRIBUTION.--Province of Szechuen, W. China: Dupleix Mountains, 13,000 feet. (_Bonvalot._)
HABITS.--Little is known of the habits of this Chinese representative of the Bengal Macaque. In the winter it is said to have a splendid coat of rich brown hair, very long and thick. It is very fierce and powerful.
XII. THE TCHELI MACAQUE. MACACUS TCHELIENSIS.
_Macacus tcheliensis_, Milne Edwards, Rech. Mamm., p. 227, pls. xxxii. and xxxiii. (1868-1874); A. David, Journ. North China Branch As. Soc., 1873, p. 230.
_Macacus rhesus_ (nec Audeb.), Scl., P. Z. S., 1871, p. 222.
{ 27}_Macacus erythræus_, Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 112 (1876).
_Macacus lasiotis_, Anderson, Zool. Exped. Yun-nan, p. 83 (1878 pt.).
CHARACTERS.--The _Macacus tcheliensis_ is another species with a very close affinity to _M. rhesus_, and to _M. lasiotis_. Dr. Anderson, indeed, has united the Tcheli and the Hairy-eared Macaques under one species; while Dr. Sclater is not prepared to consider either of them, or _M. cyclopis_ in addition, to be distinct from _M. rhesus_.
_M. tcheliensis_ has the tail as long only as the hind foot, and densely clothed with long hair. Fur rather long, soft, and silky, and thicker than in the normal _M. rhesus_. General colour brilliant reddish-fawn, especially on the hinder part of the back and on the tail; sides of the cheeks and shoulders greyish, the yellow rings of the hair being absent; under surface of the body and inner side of the limbs grey; hands and feet greyish-fawn.