148 COLOBUS 



CoLOBUS GAT.T.ARUM Neumann. 



Colobus gallarum Neum., Sitzungsb. Ges. Natur. Freunde, Ber- 

 lin, 1902, p. 49. 



Type locality. Abassie near Harrar, Abyssinia. 



Geogr. Distr. Abyssinia and Galla country, East Africa. No type 

 designated. 



Color. Narrow band on forehead above eyes, sides of head, chin, 

 throat, sides and front of neck to chest, long hairs of mantle from 

 shoulders to rump continuing across rump, and band around root of 

 tail white, rest of pelage, head, body, limbs, hands, feet black ; tail black 

 with gray hairs mixed, tuft white. 



Measurements. Skull : total length, 112; occipito-nasal length, 88 ; 

 zygomatic width, 83 ; intertemporal width, 47 ; median length of nasals, 

 12; length of upper molar series, 31.5; length of mandible, 79; length 

 of lower molar series, 37. Ex typical example Berlin Museum. 



This is a close ally of C. caudatus, but diflfers in the white of 

 throat coming down to the breast and in having the tail nearly all black, 

 only the tuft being white. 



