124 COLO BUS 



RED-CRESTED GUEREZA. 



Type locality. Muniuni, near Mombassa, East Africa. Type in 

 Berlin Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Forests of Muniuni, East Africa ; range unknown. 



Color. Band on forehead broadest on sides, and narrowest be- 

 tween eyes, black, the hairs standing upright on outer edge ; indistinct 

 black line from eye to ear ; top of head in center ochraceous, remainder 

 extending to a point above nose and back of neck rusty red; sides of 

 head yellowish gray ; tufts above ears black, this color extending nearly 

 to center of head, but not across it ; back to rump, shoulders, and sides 

 of body, seal brown, nearly black in some lights ; rump dark drab 

 brown ; limbs sepia ; under parts and inner side of arms yellowish 

 white ; hands and feet dark olive brown ; tail reddish brown grading 

 into blackish at tip. No skull. Ex type Berlin Museum 



COLOBUS TEPHEOSCELES EUiot. 



Colobus rufomitratus (nee Peters), Thos., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1901, p. 86. 



Colobus tephrosceles Elliot, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th Sen, 1907, 

 p. 195. 



Type locality. Ruahara River, Toro, Mt. Ruwenzori, altitude 

 4,000 feet, Uganda, East Africa. Type in British Museum. 



Genl. Char. Similar to C. rufomitratus, but diflfers in not having 

 any black on head between tufts, in the pale colored arms and legs, 

 in the gray brown basal portion of the tail, and in the absence of a 

 black stripe between ears and shoulders, and in the feet and hands 

 being brownish black instead of dark olive brown (dunkel oliven- 

 braun). Upright tufts on sides of crown above ears. 



Color. A narrow black band on forehead extending backwards 

 to ears ; top of head and nape dark rusty brown ; upright tufts dark 

 rusty brown, mixed with some brownish black hairs tipped with yellow, 

 these showing chiefly on the outer side of the tufts ; sides of head 

 between ears and eyes blackish gray, the hairs hiding the ears ; side 

 of upper lip extending down and covering lower jaw, purplish gray; 

 hair on upper part of back long, covering the shoulders, brownish 

 black, grading into dark Prout's brown on sides and rump ; outer 

 side of arms pale grayish brown ; outer side of legs pale brownish 

 gray ; under parts and inner side of limbs grayish white ; hands 

 brownish black ; feet Vandyke brown ; tail, basal third grayish brown, 

 remainder blackish brown grading into black at tip. Ex type British 

 Museum. 



