172 PROPITHECUS 



Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Simiae, 1876, p. 293 ; Bartl., Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 769 ; Forbes, Handb. Primates, I, 

 1894, p. 100 ; Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Columb. Mus., VIII, 

 1906, p. 542, Zool. Ser. 

 Propithecus majori Rothsch., Novit. Zool., I, 1894, p. 666, pi. 

 XIV. 



VERREAUX'S SIFAKA. 



Type locality. Mananzari, Madagascar. Type in Paris Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. South west coast of Madagascar, between the 

 southern base of the eastern range of mountains and the River Tsidsi- 

 bon. 



Genl. Char. Face naked ; skull swollen between orbits ; incisors 

 sub-equal. 



Color. Top of head dark reddish brown, this color not reaching the 

 face ; gray patch on middle of back ; outer side of forearms, and legs 

 ashy gray; rest of head, body and limbs white; tail yellowish white. 

 Face and interior of ears black. 



Measurements. Total length, 1,000; tail, 550. Skull: occipito- 

 nasal length, 77 ; Hensel, 64 ; zygomatic width, 55 ; intertemporal width, 

 27 ; median length of nasals, 8 ; length of upper molar series, 27 ; length 

 of mandible, 56 ; length of lower molar series, 28. 



The type of this species in the Paris Museum with the exception 

 of the spot on the head has faded completely, the entire body and limbs 

 being white, the gray hue having disappeared. P. majori is undoubt- 

 edly a melanistic form of P. verreauxi which is found in the same 

 locality, the Collector obtaining both the typical and melanistic styles. 

 I have examined the type of majori in Tring Museum. 



Propithecus verreauxi deckeni (Peters). 



Propithecus deckeni Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 



Berlin, 1870, p. 421 ; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 



847; Bartl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875, p. 63; Schleg., Mus. 



Pays-Bas, Simiae, 1876, p. 294; Forbes, Handb. Primates, I, 



1894, p. 101. 

 Propithecus candidus Grandid., Compt. Rend., 1871, p. 231. 

 Propithecus verreauxi var. deckeni Milne-Edw. et Grandid., Hist. 



Nat. Madag., Mamm., I, 1875, p. 312, pi. V. 

 Propithecus verreauxi deckeni Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Columb. 



Mus., VIII, 1906, p. 542, Zool. Ser. 



