174 PROPITHECUS 



yellowish white ; loins, hands and feet white ; tail rusty gray ; ears 

 black. Ex type Paris Museum. 



Measurements. Skull : occipito-nasal length, 82 ; Hensel, 70 ; zygo- 

 matic width, 60 ; intertemporal width, 33 ; median length of nasals, 10 ; 

 length of upper molar series, 28; length of mandible, 60; length of 

 lower molar series, 26. 



Propithecus verreauxi coronatus a. Milne-Edwards. 



Propithecus verreauxi var. coronatus A. Milne-Edw., Rev. Scient, 



1871, p. 224; Milne-Edw. et Grandid., Hist. Nat. Madag., 



Mamm., I, 1875, p. 316, pi. VII. 

 Propithecus coronatus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 847 ; 



1875, p. 63 ; Forbes, Handb. Primates, I, 1894. p. 102. 

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



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



CROWNED SIFAKA. 



Type locality. Province of Boeny on the Bay of Bombetok, Mada- 

 gascar. Type in Paris Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. North west coast of Madagascar between the Bay 

 of Mozamba on the north, the River Betseboka on the east, and the 

 River Manzaray on the west, in the country of Boeny, extending its 

 range for some distance into the interior. 



Genl. Char. Muzzle broad, naked; braincase large; nasals extend- 

 ing beyond incisors ; nose flat. Colors various. 



Color. Face naked, black; top of nose covered with short white 

 hairs ; top and sides of head in front of ears descending to, and cover- 

 ing the throat, chocolate brown ; ears black fringed with white ; upper 

 surface of arms and thighs rusty red ; under part orange red ; rest of 

 body, limbs, hands, feet and tail pure white. Ex type Paris Museum. 



Measurements. Size about equal to P. verreauxi. Skull : occipito- 

 nasal length, 81 ; Hensel, 67 ; intertemporal width, 34 ; zygomatic width, 

 55; median length of nasals, 11; length of upper molar series, 28; 

 length of lower molar series, 30. Ex type Paris Museum. 



