56 Lloyd's natural history. 



gishness with a savage and vindictive temper. One of the 

 specimens, he says, " in the menagerie of the Zoological 

 Society, an adult male, was gentle, familiar, and pleased to be 

 noticed or caressed ; but, at the same time, it was neither 

 lively nor playful. The other was deceitful, and though appar- 

 ently calm, very suspicious ; it was roused by the slightest pro- 

 vocation to anger, and would turn upon its disturber with the 

 utmost malevolence depicted in its countenance, making every 

 possible effort to assault him, exhibiting its teeth and gazing 



fixedly in his face On the whole, indolence 



and ferocity form the character of the adult, at least, in 

 captivity." 



XIV. THE GRIVET GUENON. CERCOPITHECUS SAB^EUS. 



Simi'a sabcea, Linn., Syst. Nat., i., p. 38 (1766). 



Cercopithecus griseus (Le Grivet), F. Cuvier, Mamm., i., livr. 



vii. (Juin, 1819). 

 Cercopithecus griseo-viridis, Desmarest, Mamm., p. 61 (1820); 



Martin, Mammif. An., p. 518 (1841); Riippell, Neue 



Wirbelth. Saugeth., p. 8 (1835) ; Blanford, Zool. Abyss. 



Exp., p. 224 (1870) ; Sclater, P. Z. S., 1893, p. 248. 

 Cercopithecus sabceus^ Geoffr., Cat. Meth. Primates, p. 22 



(1851); Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 74 (1876). 

 Chlorocebus e?igythithea, Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 26 



(1870). 



Characters. — Head more pyramidal than in C. cynosurus^ and 

 the muzzle thinner ; an angular patch of hair at the corner of 

 each eye, pointing backwards ; whiskers forming long and thick 

 ear-tufts, directed backwards and partly concealing the ears ; 

 ears small ; hands short and small. Face, ears, and Hps dirk 



