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missioner in Nyasa Land, has sent it from the Milanji Plateaa 

 where it ranges from 3,000 to 6,000 feet above the sea. This 

 species was at one time supposed, but quite erroneously, to 

 come from Madagascar. 



Habits. — This Monkey is very frequently brought alive to 

 Europe, and almost all that we know of its habits has been 

 obtained from observing it in captivity. Colonel Sykes, who 

 first brought this species to England and described it, says 

 that " its manners in captivity are grave and sedate. Its dis- 

 position is gentle, but not affectionate ; and though free from 

 that capricious petulance and mischievous irascibility charac- 

 teristic of so many of the African species, still it quickly resents 

 irritating treatment, and evinces its resentment by very smart 

 blows with its anterior hands. It never bit any person on 

 board ship, but so seriously lacerated three Monkeys, its fellow 

 passengers, that two of them died from the wounds. It 

 readily ate meat, and would choose to pick a bone even when 

 plentifully supplied with vegetables and dried fruits." Another 

 individual, seen by Mr. Ogilby, exhibited the same antipathy to 

 other Monkeys. 



XXIV. BOUTOURLINI'S GtJENON. CERCOPITHECUS BOUTOURLINII. 

 i^Plate XXIX.) 



Cercopithecus boutourlinii^ Giglioli, Zool. Anz., x,, p. 510 



(1887); Scl., P. Z. S., 1893, pp. 256, 441. 



Cercopithecus albigularis^ Giglioli, Ann. Mus. Genov. (2), vi., 



p. 8 (1888). 



Characters. — Male. — Body-hairs long and rough ; upper surface 



black, with pale fulvous annellations, except on a line between 



the shoulders, which is nearly black ; ears nearly nude, with 



an inner hairy pencil ; nose, upper lip, chin, and throat, pure 



white ; rest of the under surface and of the limbs and tail black. 



