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the hair is like satin, and deep black in color ; but a band across the 

 forehead, the temples, the side of the neck, the chin, throat, a mane-like 

 girdle extending from the shoulders across the loins, and the bushy tip 

 of its tail, are white. Each hair is ringed with slender brown bands, is 

 very soft and fine and of considerable length. The mane, if mane it can 

 be called, running down both sides of the body, hangs like a silver mantle, 

 and is an ornament of indescribable beauty, as the jet-black hair of the 

 body is seen darkly gleaming through its silvery fringe, which is very 

 long over the back of thighs. The length of the body is about two feet, 

 that of the tail without the tuft a little longer. 



The Guereza is found ever}- where in Abyssinia south of North Lati- 

 tude 13°, in a chain of highlands six to seven thousand feet above the 

 sea level. It lives in banils of from ten to fifteen in lofty trees near 

 the clear-flowing mountain-streams, and loves tlie neighborhood of the 

 churches, which usually stand under the shadow of consecrated trees. 

 The Juniper {Junipcrus proccrd) which grows there to a height that 

 dwarfs our pines or hemlocks, is a favorite abode. The Guereza is very 

 agile, and, till he has experienced the violence of man, anvthing but shy ; 

 he creeps like a cat towards the disturber of his peace. When in flight 

 he presents a spectacle of grace and beauty as he leaps from bough to 

 bougli, with his white mantle floating around him like the white burnous 

 of an Arab chief over his charger. In contradistinction to other apes he 

 is regarded by the natives as harmless, for he seldom injures the crops. 

 The skin is much prized as an ornament of the shields of the native 

 warriors ; a skin is said to be worth six fat sheep. 



Two species, Colobus ursittus and the Colobus satanas, need little men- 

 tion. The former has a white tail, but the rest of the body is covered 

 with hair of a dirty yellow mixed with black. Tlic latter is entirely 

 black, and is perhaps only a variety. Both these species are found in 

 Western Africa. 



