COLO BUS 141 



long hairs falling over shoulders, and throat white; entire rest of 

 pelage, top and back of head, hind neck, body above and beneath, 

 limbs, hands and feet black ; tail pure white for its entire length. 



Measurements. Total length, 1,638.3; tail, 685.8; foot, 207.4. 

 Skull: total length, 116; occipito-nasal length, 93; intertemporal width, 

 43 ; zygomatic width, 83 ; palatal length, 44 ; median length of nasals, 

 15; length of upper molar series, 31; length of mandible, 85; length 

 of lower molar series, 37. 



While Schreber does not describe this monkey, yet as his plate 

 shows a figure, though exaggerated, with a tail white for its entire 

 length, it is best to retain his name, for this species is the only one 

 with a tail colored in such manner. 



COLOBUS PAT.T.IATUS PctcrS. 



Colobus palliatus Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berl., 

 1868, p. 637 ; 1879, p. 830, pi. IV A ; Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., Ill, 4th Ser., 1869, p. 171; Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1880, p. 68; Matschie, Sitzungsb. Ges. Natur. Freunde, 

 Berlin, 1892, p. 227; Pousarg., Ann. Scien. Nat., 1896, 7me 

 Sen, III, p. 146 ; 8me Sen, p. 262, fig. 5 ; Lydekk., Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1905, p. 326, fig. 55. 

 Type locality. German East Africa, opposite Zanzibar. Type 

 in Berlin Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Konde, north of Lake Nyassa, German East 

 Africa; Bagamoyo; Ousambara district north bank of the Pangani. 



Genl. Char. Differs from C. angolensis Sclat., in having a white 

 frontal band. 



Color. A band across forehead extending over the temples and 

 under the ears to sides of neck, throat to breast and long hairs of 

 mantle over shoulders white; head, body above and beneath, limbs, 

 hands and feet, jet black; tail black on basal three fourths grading into 

 white for the remainder of the length. Ex type Berlin Museum. 



Measurements. Skull : total length, 106 ; occipito-nasal length, 

 86 ; Hensel, 77 ; zygomatic width, 77 ; intertemporal width, 40 ; palatal 

 length, 44; median length of nasals, 10; length of upper molar series, 

 30. Ex type Berlin Museum. 



This species resembles C. angolensis in all respects except that 

 it has a narrow white band across the forehead, and the white of the 

 throat extends farther down, reaching the chest. 



