﻿ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. 



BAND 4. N:o 16. 



Notes 011 soiiie Maiimials coUected in the 

 Coiigo Free State 



by the Swedish Missionary K. E. Laman. 



By 



EINAR LÖNNBERG. 



The following small collection of mammals was delivered 

 to the R. Natural History Museum in Stockholm some time 

 ago by the Swedish Missionary, Mr K. E. Laman, who pre- 

 viously has shown his interests for the zoology by collecting 

 birds and insects, and thus in a valuable man ner has in- 

 creased our knowledge about the fauna of Lower Congo. 

 The mammals mentioned below, and partly described as new, 

 have been collected at Mukimbungu ^ below Manyanga, about 

 an hours way from Congo River in Lower Congo. 



Gercopithecus ascanias (Audebert). 

 2 skins without shulls. 



The colour of these skins agree, on the whole, with the 

 descriptions of Pousargue^ and Pocock,^ but they prove 

 at the same time the variability of this monkey already 

 pointed out by the latter author. The black cheek-stripe is 

 strongly develop.ed in both the present specimens and extends 



^ See some notes about this place in : »Notes on Birds collected in 

 the Congo Free State by the Swedish Missionary K. E. Laman. By Einab 

 LöNNBEBG. Ark. f. Zool. Bd 3. N:o 21. 



2 Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. T. 3 p. 183 Paris 1896. 



=* Proc. Zool. Soc London 1907 p. 719. 



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