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Identifier: twoyearsinjungle00hornuoft (find matches)
Title: Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937
Subjects: Hunting East Indies -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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, the most striking feature of the pro-boscis monkey is its nose. In old male specimens this organ reachesits grandest proportions, and is truly enormous in length, breadthand thickness. It hangs from the face like—well, totally unlike any. I J
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PORTKAIT OF A PROBOSCIS MONKEY. (From a sketch by the Author.) COLLECTING AT PADANG LAKE. 395 thing else in the world, coming quite below the lowest point of thechin, shaped like a pear except for a furrow down the middle anda contracted septum, which causes the organ to terminate in twopoints. It is broadest at the middle of the free portion instead ofat the base. Nothing could be more unnatural than the noses of all thestuffed proboscis monkeys I have yet seen in museums. They donot even suggest the natural form or size of the organ. The pict-ures of the animal sin against nature in the same fashion, and, inorder to set Nasalis right before the world and vindicate his nasalcharacter, I fixed my best specimen on a branch in a natuxal atti-tude, and drew a picture of him, to scale, a copy of which is sub-mitted in the accompanjang engi-aving. The proboscis monkey, which, by the way, is found only inBorneo, is a large animal and of striking appearance both in formand color. Its face is

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