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and ears naked and brownish-black, the long superciliary hairs 

 and the transverse crest, from ear to ear, black ; front and back 

 of the head to the nape of the neck brownish-red ; cheeks and 

 chin dark grey ; back, from the nape of the neck, flanks, outer 

 and hinder surfaces of the limbs, and the feet, dark brownish- 

 olive ; front of the shoulder, of the arm and part of the fore-arm, 

 and the front of the thighs, pale reddish-yellow ; breast, under 

 side of the body and inner side of the limbs, of the same colour, 

 but paler ; tail coloured like the back, the tip tufted, brownish- 

 black. Length of body, 26^ inches; tail, 27^. 



Distribution. — This very rare species hves in East Africa. 

 Forests at Muniuni, near Mombasa. 



III. kirk's guereza. coloeus kirki. 



Colobus ki?'kii, Gray, P. Z. S., 1868, p. 180, pi. xv. ; id.. Cat. 



Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 127 (1870) ; Schl, Mus. Pays-Bas, 



vii., p. 25 (1S76); Kirk, Ann. and Mag. N. H. (5), xiii., 



p. 307 (1884). 

 Guereza kirkii, Trouess., Consp. Maium., p. 14 (1879). 

 Piliocolobus kirki, Rochebr., Faun. Seneg., Mamm. Suppl., p. 



112, pi. vi. (1887). 



Characters. — Face and ears naked, bluish-black ; tip of the 

 nose greyish white ; head, with long divergent hairs, forming a 

 kind of cap, bent backwards over the forehead ; crown of head, 

 back, and tail, reddish-brown, paler towards the extremity ; the 

 nape, shoulders, arms, outer and anterior aspects of the fore- 

 arms, the centre of the outer aspect of the thighs and legs, and 

 the hands and feet, black ; forehead, cheeks, chest, front aspect 

 of the shoulders, the whole of the under side of the body. 



