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IX. RUPPELLS GUEREZA. COLOBUS GUEREZA. 



Colobiis guereza, Rupp, Neue Wirbelth. Saugeth., p. i, pi. i 

 (1835); Lesson, Spec. Mamm., p. 68 (1840); Martin, 

 Mammif. An., p. 494 (1841) ; Is. Geoffi-., Diet. H. N., iv., 

 p. 117 (1849); id., Cat Meth. Primates, p. 17 (1851); 

 Temm., Esquiss. Zool. Guin., p. 23 (1853); Dahlb., 

 Zool. Stud., i., p. 95 (1857); Sclater, P. Z. S., i860, 

 p. 246; Gray, P. Z. S., 1868, p. 182; Schl., Mus. Pays- 

 Bas, vii., p. 25 (1876); Thomas, P. Z. S., 1885, p. 219; 

 Matschie, S. B. Gesell. Natur. Fr. Berlin, 1892, p. 225, et 

 seqq. 

 Giiereza rueppelli^ Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 19 

 (1870); Rochebr., Faun. Senegamb., i., Mamm., p. 25 

 (1885); id., t.c.^ suppl., p. 129, pi. xi. (1887). 

 Guereza gtiereza, Trouess., Consp. Mamm., p. 10 (1879.) 

 Giiereza occidentalism Rochebr., op, city Suppl., p. 140, pi. xiii. 

 (1887). 

 Characters. — Face thinly covered with greyish-white hairs ; nose 

 and upper lip black ; ears, naked, black ; a bar across the fore- 

 head, expanding on the sides of the head, throat, sides of the 

 neck, and chin, white ; from the shoulders a mantle of long 

 white silky hairs extending down each side and meeting on the 

 lower back, so as to hang down over the sides of the body, 

 the hips, and thighs ; the outside of the latter greyish-white ; 

 the hinder third of the tail tufted and white, each hair ringed 

 with numerous fine bands of brown ; the whole of the rest of 

 the body deep shining black. Length of the body, 28 inches ; 

 of the tail, 28^. 



Distribution. — This remarkably beautiful Monkey inhabits 

 North-Eastern Africa, where it is not uncommon in the pro- 

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