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acute ; the tail regularly ringed with scales, from betvveen vvhich 

 only a few scattered hairs make their appearance. The fur of the 

 upper surface is of a light grey at the base ; but the longer hairs 

 have a blackish shade, with an intermixture of testaceous brown, 

 which is more obvious posteriorly and tovvards the lowerpart of the 

 sides. The flattened spines, which are numerous, are white and 

 transparent throughout the greaterpart of their length, with a dark 

 margin and blackish acuminate tip, beneath which they exhibit, ia 

 certain h'ghts, somevvhat of a changeable gloss. The moustaches 

 are few in number, black at the base and \vhite at the tips, and reach 

 beyond the ears, vvhich are naked, rounded with a slight point, ex- 

 tremely open, membranaceous, and of a dusky black. The whole 

 under surface, together with the insides of the limbs, the upper sur- 

 face of tlie feet, and the clavvSj are of a yellovvish or dirty white- 

 The tail is of a uniform livid grey, but little darker above than 

 beneath, and tapering to a very fine point. 



Severai imperfect skins of Mammalia, recently obtained by Mr. 

 Gould from Algoa Bay, were exhibited ; and Mr. Bennett remarked, 

 that notwithstanding their deficiency in the most inaportant particu- 

 lars, they wereyet of sufBcient interest to claim the attention ofthe 

 Comnoittee, on account of the extreme rarity of two of the species 

 to vvhich they belonged, and of the probability that a third was alto- 

 gether unknovvn to science. 



One of them, the skin of a Monhey deficient as to head and hands, 

 was, Mr. Bennett stated, evidently referable to the Colobus polyco- 

 nius, Illig. ; the long milk-white tail, strongly contrasting with the 

 bright deep black fur of the body, being fully sufEcient to charac- 

 terize it. On the upper part ofthe skin, above the shoulders, some 

 nearly vvhite hairs vvere intermingled with the black ones. The only 

 discrepancy observable betvveen the specimen and the description 

 of the species given by Pennant, vvas in the great length of the hairs 

 of the body, the greater number of them being four or five inches 

 long : this, it was remarked, might be dependent on age orlocality. 



Another skin, eąually imperfect vvith the preceding, was that of 

 the Colobus ferrugineus, Illig., vvith the statė of vvhich, described by 

 M. Kuhl under the name of Col. Temminckii, the specimen agreed 

 in every respect except in the absence of any yellow tinge in the 

 rufous fur covering the under surface of the body. 



The third skin vvas still more imperfect than the others, having 

 attached to it no portion of the neck, extremities, or tail, and con- 

 sisting only of that ofthe body. Its length is 2 feet, its vvidth I5. 

 The dorsal portion is of a bright rufous favvn, vvhich iscontinuedon 

 the shoulders and on the buttocks, but from vvhich the red nearly 

 disappears on the under surface, that being pale favvn. Across the 

 whole of the back, commencing betvveen the shoulders and passing 

 backvvards, a series of broad transverse glossy black stripes are seen, 

 which run dovvn the sides, becoming uarrovver tovvards the belly. 

 These stripes are tvvelve in number, and are preceded and succecded 

 by a fevv similar, closer set, and fainter stripes, of a deeper rufous 



