Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15785

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WANDEROO, s. In Ceylon a large kind of monkey, originally described under this name by Knox (*Presbytes ursinus*). The name is, however, the generic Singhalese word for 'a monkey' (*wanderu, vandura*), and the same with the Hind. *bandar*, Skt. *vānara*. Remarks on the disputed identity of Knox's wanderoo, and the different species to which the name has been applied, popularly, or by naturalists, will be found in Emerson Tennent, i. 129-130.