46 Lloyd's natural history. 



in. the red-bellied guenon. cercopithecus 

 erythrogaster. 

 Cercopithecus erythrogaster^ Gray, P. Z. S., 1866, p. 169, pi. xvi., 

 1868, p. 182; id., Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 128 

 (1870); Murie, P. Z. S., 1866, p. 380; Schleg., Mus 

 Pays-Bas, vii., p. 69 (1876); Sclater, P. Z. S., 1893, p. 

 252, 1894, p. I. 

 Characters. — Fur blackish, speckled with yellow, especially on 

 the head, the hairs being black ringed with yellow ; face 

 black ; nose-spot white ; moustache and frontal band from the 

 temple to the ears black; on each cheek a whitish-yellow 

 spot ; v/hiskers, beard, throat, and sides of neck yellowish- 

 white; chest and under surface of body rufous; inner side of 

 the front of the thighs, and under side of the tail greyish-white ; 

 outer aspect of thighs and hind legs grey, speckled with black. 

 Length of body, 13^ inches; of tail, 16 inches. 



In the young female the top of the head is yellowish, 

 this colour extending towards the nape. 



Distribution. — West Africa. This species has been only once 

 exhibited in the Zoological Gardens of London, viz., in 1866, 

 but recently, according to Dr. Sclater, a specimen lived for a 

 short time in the Zoological Gardens of Rotterdam. 



Habits. — Nothing is known of the habits of the Red-bellied 

 Guenon in a state of nature ; but Dr. Murie has written of the 

 one that lived for two months in the Zoological Gardens : 

 " Its nature appeared mild and harmless, by no means grave or 

 sedate, indeed rather inclined to be lively and playful, with 

 but little disposition to be quarrelsome. The keeper noticed 

 that it appeared timid, and somewhat distrustful of its more 

 romping companions, but freely approached him, and when 



