RHINOPITHECUS 103 



Geogr. Distr. Moupin, north-western China to Kokonoor, and 

 Kansu Kinsu, northwestern Sechuen, (Styan). Eastern Thibet. 



Genl. Char. Face naked, green; nose small, depressed in center, 

 tip elevated; a rufous line of hairs towards nose across face. 



Color. Male. Top of head, nape and upper parts, shoulders, and 

 upper part of outer side of arms grayish black ; this overlaid on back, 

 and sides, and shoulders, with long silvery gray hairs; rump and tail 

 grayish black, tip of tail whitish ; forehead, temples, sides of head and 

 neck, shoulders, chin, throat, and upper part of breast rich deep rufous ; 

 outer side of forearms silvery color; grayish black line down outer 

 side of leg ; inner side of arms and legs orange ochraceous ; under 

 parts yellowish white ; hands buflf yellow ; feet orange ochraceous ; ears 

 hidden in fur, but deep rufous tufts protrude upwards. Ex specimen 

 British Museum. 



Female. Is similar to the male, but the head and upper parts, 

 and outer side of limbs are brownish black, and there are only a few 

 strands of buflf and buflfy ochraceous hairs straggling over upper back 

 and shoulders; forehead, line on face, temples, side of head and neck 

 to shoulders, chin, throat, and upper part of breast rufous, not so 

 deep as in the male ; tufts on ears yellowish white ; outer side of arms, 

 legs and tail brownish black ; inner side of limbs, and under parts pale 

 buflf ; patch on upper part of thighs externally, and anal region whitish ; 

 wrists and ankles, hands and feet orange buflf. Ex specimen British 

 Museum, West China. 



Measurements. Total length, 1,270; tail, 700; foot, 190, (skin). 

 Skull : total length, 129 ; occipito-nasal length, 96 ; intertemporal width, 

 51; zygomatic width, 99; median length of nasals, 15; palatal length, 

 46 ; length of upper molar series, 33 ; length of mandible, 95 ; length of 

 lower molar series, 40. 



This species, the first discovered of the genus, is the handsomest 

 of them all, but not the largest. It is a very striking object, with its 

 short upturned nose, and brilliant coloring. It is near neighbor of its 

 relative the next species, R. bieti, their habitats separated probably 

 by the River Blue, but does not equal it in size. Nothing is known of 

 the habits of this species. The type is so faded from exposure to light 

 that a description of it would be of no value. 



Rhinopithecus bieti a. Milne-Edwards. 



Rhinopithecus bieti A. Milne-Edw., Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 

 X, 1898, p. 121, pis. IX-XII. 



