THE GUEREZAS. 87 



Tropical Africa, ranging from Abyssinia and Zanzibar in the 

 east, to Senegambia, Angola, and perhaps the island of Fernando 

 Po on the west — between about 15° N. lat. on the eastern and 

 1 2° on the western side, to 10° S. lat. They live in small troops 

 in the forest, both on the plains and on the mountains, their 

 food consisting of fruits, but principally of leaves, which they 

 eat in large quantities, as the peculiar and capacious form of 

 their storehouse-like stomach, in lieu of cheek -pouches, would 

 indicate. 



Of their habits in their native state very little indeed is 

 known, for they prefer to keep to the great trees of the forests 

 far from human habitation ; while, owing to their very delicate 

 constitution enabling them to resist for a very short period the 

 rigours of a climate cooler than their own, scarcely anything 

 has been learnt of them in captivity. The beautiful skins of 

 many of the species form a considerable article of commerce 

 in Europe and America to adorn the costumes of the most 

 refined and cultivated ladies, who vie for their possession 

 with the semi-nude and barbarous warriors of Equatorial 

 Africa, by whom they are also used as ornaments for their 

 persons and for decorations for their weapons. 



I. VAN BENEDEN's GUEREZA. C0L0I3US VERUS. 



Colobus verns, Van Bened., Bull. Acad. Sc, Brux., v., p. 344, 

 pi. 13 (1838) ; Less., Spec. Mamm., p. 70 (1840); Martin, 

 Mammif. Anim., p. 503 (1841) ; Geoffr., Cat. INIeth. Pri- 

 mates, p. 17, no. 4 (185 1); Wagner, in Schreber, Siiugeth. 

 SuppL, v., p. 37 (1855) ; Gray, P. Z. S., 1868, p. 182; Schl, 

 Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 28 (1876). 



Semnopithecus [Colobus) o/waceus^\N ^gnQX^ in Schreber's Saugeth. 

 Suppl.,i., p. 309 (1840). 



