-»> Fauna : Mammals 



Of monkeys of the large genus Cercopithecus ^ there are 

 at least five kinds. Two of these belong to the white-nosed 

 o-roLip, which in varying forms is distributed from Senegambia 

 right across to Uganda, and from these regions of forested 

 Africa southwards to the Zambezi basin. The white-nosed 

 monkeys of Liberia would appear to be pecuHar species — ■ 

 Cercopithecus stampflii and C buettikoferi. The last-named differs 

 most markedly from the common West African Cercopithecus 

 petaurista, in that it has a long white mark over the ridge of 

 the eyebrows, stretching from the bridge of the nose right 

 across the face to below the ear. In C. stampflii the place of 

 this white line is taken by an indistinct patch of hair. There 

 is also no black band, as in C. petaurista^ stretching over the 

 top of the skull. 



According to Biittikofer, Stampfli's Cercopithecus is the 

 largest species of the white-nosed group. Its tail is exceedingly 

 long, over a yard in length, and the body a little less. The 

 colouring of this monkey he gives as being mottled yellow- 

 green and black from the back down to the middle of the tail. 

 The top of the head, neck, arms, and outer side of hands 

 and the last half of the tail are black. The chin, breast, inside 

 of the arms, and upper half of the stomach are white. The 

 white patch on the nose also extends farther up towards the 

 brows. 



The Green monkey [Cercopithecus callitrichus) is fairly 

 common in the western parts of Liberia, near the Sierra Leone 

 frontier. It is a pretty little animal, allied to the white-nosed 

 type, but without that distinguishing feature. The Green 

 monkey has yellowish white whiskers, throat and stomach, and 

 a very narrow whitish line along the brows which joins the 



^ For which a comprehensive English name is much required. The French 

 C3ll this type of monkey guenon and the Germans mecrkatze, 



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