128 PAPIO 



Papio fueax Elliot. 



Papio furax Elliot, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., XX, 7th Ser., 1907, 

 p. 499. 



Type locality. Baringo, north west of Mt. Kenia, East Africa. 

 Type in British Museum. 



Genl. Char. Similar to P. doguera from Abyssinia, but darker, 

 and cranial characters different. The rostrum is shorter, broader and 

 flatter, and the nasals do not rise above the plane of the rostrum, and 

 are flat, not rounded; palate flatter; the distance from last molar to 

 palatal arch is much greater; width of braincase and intertemporal 

 width are much less; zygomatic width less, and the pit on side of jaw, 

 broader, shorter, and not so deep. 



Color. General hue seal brown, the hairs banded with buff, 

 becoming ochraceous buff on the rump; the black tips of the hairs 

 forming bands of black over the ochraceous buff; limbs black and 

 cream color, the hairs being banded with those hues, and having black 

 tips ; chest black and cream color, abdomen black, hairs banded with 

 ochraceous buff; hands mixed black and ochraceous buff; feet black, 

 with base of hairs buff ; tail mixed black and whitish yellow. Ex type 

 British Museum. 



Measurements. Size about the same as P. doguera. Skull : total 

 length, 196; occipito-nasal length, 166; Hensel, 141; intertemporal 

 width, 56 ; zygomatic width, 122 ; palatal length, 93 ; breadth of brain- 

 case, 82 ; median length of nasals, 77 ; length of upper molar series, 

 48 ; length of mandible, 145 ; length of lower molar series, 65. Ex type 

 British Museum. 



Compared with Abyssinian specimens of P. doguera this is a much 

 darker animal, the bands are paler and more yellow ; doguera being 

 more ochraceous, and showing less of the black. The general tone of 

 the Baringo specimen inclines to a grayish brown, and the Abyssinian 

 to ochraceous buff. 



Papio yokoensis Matschie. 



Papio yokoensis Matschie, Sitzungsb. Ges. Naturf. Freund., Ber- 

 lin, 1900, p. 89. 



Type locality. Yoko, Middle Cameroon, West Africa. Type in 

 Berlin Museum. 



Color. Top of head, shoulders, arms to elbows, and upper part 

 of back, the base of hairs purplish brown, then banded with black and 

 buff ; middle of back, rump and flanks, the hairs brownish black at 

 base banded with ochraceous to tips ; forearms and hands banded with 



