THE GUENONS. 7^ 



yellow ; the inner side of the ears furnished with long yellow- 

 flecked grey hairs ; the chest, throat, under side of the body, 

 inner side of limbs and fore part of the thighs white ; posterior 

 two-thirds of the tail yellowish-grey, the hairs ringed with black 

 and faded yellow, those of the under side with brown and 

 grey ; tip of the tail with a small black tuft. 



Distribution. --West Africa : from Sierra Leone to the Gold 

 Coast. 



Hatits.— This is the commonest Monkey, both in the in- 

 terior and on the coast of this region of Africa. It frequents 

 the moderate-sized trees of the forest in troops of fifty or more 

 in number ; and it occasionally even takes to the water of its 

 own accord. 



XXVI. THE SAMANGO GUENON. CERCOPITHECUS SAMANGO. 



Cercopithecus samango, Sundev. Ofvers. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 



Stockh., i., p. 1 60 (1844); Wagner in Schreber Saugeth. 



Suppl., v., p. 44 (1855); Peters, Reis. Mossamb., Saugeth.. 



p. 4 ; Gray, P. Z. S., 1868, p. 182 ; id , Cat. Monkeys Brit. 



Mus., p. 24 (1870); Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 79 



(1876; in part); Scl., P. Z. S., 1893, p. 251. 

 Characters.— Distinguished by the dirty white tint along the 

 basal half of ^he tail, except along the median line of the upper 

 side, which is black ; end of the tail black. Back entirely 

 blackish-olive— the hairs being yellowish-olive, ringed with 

 black ; inner side of the limbs, and entire under surface from 

 the arms to the chin, dirty white ; outer surface of the arms 

 black, of the legs grey; the feet black; ears covered with 

 whitish hairs. 



Distribution —South and East Africa: Natal and Mozambique ; 

 extending to Angola in the west. 



