Bo Lloyd's natural historV. 



Cercopithecus diana, Erxleb., Syst Regne An., p. 30 (1777); 



Desmar., Mamm., p. 60 (1820); Martin, Mammif. An., p. 



523 (1841) ; Geofifr., Diet. Hist. Nat., iii., p. 304 (1849); 



Wagner in Schreb. Saugeth. Suppl., v., p. 48 (1855); 



Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 22 (1870; pt.) ; Schl, 



Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 92 (1876; pt.) ; Jentink, Notes> 



Leyd. Mus., x., p. 12 ; Sclater, P. Z. S., 1893, p. 254. 

 Cercopithecus dia?ia^ var. igjiita^ Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. 



Mus., p. 22 (1870). 



Characters. — Face black. Sides of face with long bushy 

 whiskers, terminating on the chin in a pointed white beard a 

 few inches long ; across the forehead run two arched lines of 

 erect hairs, the lower black, the upper white ; top of the head, 

 back of the neck, shoulders, the sides, middle of belly, ashy- 

 grey — the hairs being white and black ringed, and white- 

 tipped; outside of limbs darker, the hands black; tail grey, 

 the tip black ; neck, chest, and anterior part of the arms white ; 

 from the middle of the back a deep chestnut spot extends, and 

 widens to the root of the tail ; from the base of the tail, the 

 outer aspect of the thighs, white ; posterior part of under side of 

 body and inner side of thighs, orange-yellow, or orange red, 

 or bright red bay (C igtiita of Gray). Length of body, 18 

 inches ; of tail, 24 inches. 



Distribution. — West Africa : from Liberia to the Congo, 



Habits. — This beautiful and graceful Monkey is not un- 

 common in captivity, and nearly all we know of its habits has 

 been obtained from such specimens. " Like the rest of its 

 tribe," writes Mr. Martin, "it is gentle, lively, active, and 

 familiar while young, but as age advances it becomes reserved 

 and treacherous. ... Its frontal ores' of white hairs, and 



