COLOBUS 127 



Measurements. Total length, 1,380 ; tail, 690 ; foot, 170. No skull. 

 Ex type British Museum. 



Female. Top of head crested, and together with outer side of 

 arms, brick red ; hands blackish ; back of head chestnut ; back of neck 

 and upper parts black with a brownish tinge on rump ; outer side of 

 legs Prout's brown becoming blackish on feet ; under parts like male ; 

 tail black. 



Measurements. Total length, 1,280; tail, 675; foot, 150. Skull: 

 total length, 104.6 ; occipito-nasal length, 88.5 ; intertemporal width, 

 39.5 ; width of braincase, 54.5 ; Hensel, 76.2 ; zygomatic width, 72.7 ; 

 palatal length, 38.2; median length of nasals, 13.2; length of upper 

 molar series, 29; length of mandible, 73.2; length of lower molar 

 series, 36. 



This species is nearest to C. nigrimanus Trouess., but differs 

 in having the top of the head brick red, not dark brownish red, and 

 the sides of the head chestnut red, not grayish white tinged with 

 yellow; and the chest pale rusty, not dark yellowish brown, and the 

 thighs gray instead of bright red. The tail is also different, the blackish 

 maroon of the basal part and the rest black, contrasting with the three 

 fourths dark red, and remainder, dull dark maroon tail of the allied 

 species. 



CoLOBUs PREUssi Matschic. 



Colobus preussi Matschie, Sitzungsb. Ges. Natur. Freunde, Ber- 

 lin, 1900, p. 183. 



Type locality. Barombi, Cameroon, West Africa. Type in Berlin 

 Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Cameroon, West Africa. 



Color. Top of head black speckled with brick red ; back of head 

 and neck, (the hairs on sides of head falling over ears), and upper 

 part of body black, the hairs rather indistinctly speckled with red 

 on upper back, but more pronounced on lower back and rump where 

 they give a tinge of red over that part ; sides of face, arms, hands, 

 flanks, legs, feet, and tail dark brick red ; inner side of limbs yellowish 

 white; chin, line on center of throat, chest and center of abdomen 

 yellowish white ; rest of under parts pale brick red ; tail dark brick red 

 for two thirds the length, grading to purplish red on apical portion. 



Measurements. Total length, 1,480; tail, 795. No skull. Ex type 

 Berlin Museum. 



