URSINE COLOnVS—Co/o/jus fn'.shms. HLACK COLOBUS— C'^7o/v//^ ^dlanas. 



These ]\Ionkkvs possess both tails and clicek pouclics. Those monkeys wliicli 

 are placed in the genus Colobus, are known by the curious Ibrni of the tore j)a\vs, 

 from which the thumb is almost totally absent. They are all inhabitants of Africa. 



The Ursine, oV Beau-eike Coeohus, is so named because the general coloui- 

 of its long black fur, and the form of the monkey itself, with the exception of the 

 tail, has something of the bearish aspect. The cheeks and chin of this animal 

 are covered with wliite hair; there is a white patch on the hind legs; and with 

 the exception of a few inches at its root, which retain the black hue of the body, 

 the tail is of a beautiful w^hitc, terminated with a long and full white tuft. 



Another species, called the Fuee-maned Coeobus, is rather a remarkable 

 animal, not so much on account of its habits, of which little is known, but on 

 account of the huge mass of long hairs which cover the head and shoulders, 

 falling nearly as low as the middle of the breast. The colour of this mane, or 

 " full-bottomed peruke," as it has also been called, is yellow, with black hairs 

 intermixed. Like the Ursine Colobus, the Full-mane possesses a tail of a white 

 colour, decorated with a snowy-wliite tuft. 



The Black Coeobus is devoid of those exquisitely white portions of the fur 

 that are so sirongly marked in the Ursine and Full-maned Colobus. The head, 

 body, limbs, and even the tail, arc jet black, unrelieved bv anv admixture of a 



lighter tint. 



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