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shoulders, as already observed, has a partiai nuxture of silvery white 

 on the anterior face just where the head has been cut off ; but it is 

 not longer than the hair upon the ręst of the body and limbs, which 

 is moreover 5 or 6 inches in length, and in texture and appearance 

 not unllke that of the Ursus labintus. The -n'hole animal in fact re- 

 sembles a small Bear, and is covered -vvith the šame uniform, long, 

 black, and glossy fur upon every part except the tail, which, at the 

 root more particularly, is furnished with much shorter hair. Whe- 

 ther or not this species, likę the polycomos, has the head ofa difFer- 

 ent colour from the body, is a subject for further observation : the 

 white or silvery hairs already mentioned as still remaining about the 

 shoulders, render it extremely probable that it has, but in no case 

 can it form the striking contrast in length, nor present the long flow- 

 ing mane or M'ig-lilce appearance aseribed to the animal observed by 

 Pennant, Mr. Gould, -vvho procured these skins for the Society, re- 

 ported them as coming from Algoa Bay ; we. know enough of the 

 zoology of that part of Africa, to render this account extremely 

 doubtful, and the probability is, either that Mr. Gould wa3 misin- 

 formed, or that he may have mistaken Delagoa Bay for Algoa, which, 

 from the similarity of sound, might readily happen. If this conjec- 

 ture should prove correct, it would follow that the Col. Ursinus was 

 the analogue of the Col. polycomos on the opposite coast, and the 

 conjecture receives further countenance from the fact of many other 

 known species of Mammals having such analogues in the šame loca- 

 lities. 



3. Col. Guereza, Rūpp., with the head, face, neck, back, limbs, 

 and basai half of the tail, covered with short black hair; the temples, 

 chin, throat, and a band over the eyes, vi^hite ; the sides, flanks from 

 the shoulder downwards, loins and buttocks, clothed vrith long flow- 

 ing white, which hangs down on each side likę a loose garment ; the 

 tip of the tail furnished with a tuft of dirty white. Described and 

 figured by Dr, Rūppell in his ' Neue Wirbeltliiere.' 



4. Col.ferruginosus, Geoff., " \vith a black crown ; back of a deep 

 bay colour ; outside of the limbs black ; cheeks, under part of the 

 body, and legs of a very bright bay ; tail black." This species, ori- 

 ginally thus described by Pennant, was, likę the Col. polycomos, 

 brought from Sierra Leone. 



5 . Col.fuliginosus. Smoky blue above, dirty yello\vish gray beneath ; 

 wth the cheeks, throat, tail and extremities brick red. Brought 

 from the Gambia. 



6. Col. Temminckii, Kuhl, " mth the hands, face, and tail, purp- 

 lish red; ręst of the members, clear red; belly, reddish yellow; 

 head, neck, back, shoulders and outer face of the thighs, black.'' 

 Habitat unknown : described from a specimen formerly in Bullock's 

 Museum and now in that of Leyden. Notwithstanding some slight 

 discrepancies, I agree \vith Mr. Bennett in referring to this species 

 the two other skins of the Society's Collection, noticed by him 

 m the Part of the ' Proceedings' already referred to. These skine 



