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111. Cercopitheci Erythronoti. 

 The next three species constitute the red-furred group of 

 Geoffroy and Sclater, being bright rufous above, and white 

 beneath. 



XIX. THE PATAS GUENON. CERCOPITHECUS PATAS. 



Siffiia patas^ Schreber, Saugeth., i., p. 98, pi. xvi. (1775). 

 Ctrcopithecus patas^ Erxleb. Syst. Regne An., p. 34 (1777); 



Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 84 (1876); Scl., P. Z. S., 



1893, p. 249. 

 Simla riibra^ Gm., Syst. Nat., i., p. 34 (1788); Fischer, Synops. 



Mamm., p. 24 (1829). 

 Cercopithecus ruber ^ Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 96 (1812); id., 



Diet. d'Hist. Nat., iii., p. 307 (1849) ; Desmar. Mamm., p. 



59 (1820); Martin, Mammif. An., p. 509 (1841, pt.); 



Wagner, in Schreber, Saugeth. SuppL, v., p. 42 (1855); 



Scl., P. Z. S., 1874, p. 664. 

 Le Patas et Le Patas a bandeau noir^ F. Cuvicr, Hist. Mamm. 



i., livr. XV. (Avril, 1820). 

 Chlorocebus ruber ^ Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 25 



(1870). 



Characters.— Head broad and flattened; nose depressed; 

 muzzle short ; fur long and silky on the back of the head, else- 

 where short. Orbits narrow ; cheeks and muzzle naked ; 

 whiskers thick and bushy, encroaching far on the cheeks, 

 and extending back below the ears ; chin with a few hairs, but 

 no beard. Head, back, sides, and hinder aspect of the arms 

 and fore-arms, and of the thighs and legs, and of the upper 

 and lower sides of the base, and the upper side of the rest of 

 the tail, foxy red ; shoulders, chest, front and rest of the fore- 

 limbs, entire under side of the body, and of the terminal portion 



