﻿MAMMALS 
  OF 
  NORTHERN 
  COLOMBIA 
  — 
  ^HERSHKOVITZ 
  381 
  

  

  sented 
  in 
  Colombia 
  as 
  follows: 
  Ateles 
  belzebuth 
  belzebuth 
  is 
  found 
  east 
  

   of 
  the 
  Cordillera 
  Oriental 
  in 
  regions 
  drained 
  by 
  the 
  Orinoco 
  and 
  

   Amazonas, 
  A. 
  b. 
  hybridus 
  occurs 
  in 
  the 
  Rio 
  Magdalena, 
  Rio 
  Rancheria, 
  

   and 
  Lake 
  Maracaibo 
  drainage 
  basins, 
  A. 
  fusciceps 
  robvstus 
  in 
  the 
  

   Cordillera 
  Occidental, 
  and 
  Ateles 
  geqffroyi 
  grisescevs 
  {A. 
  rufiventris 
  

   Sclater, 
  a 
  synonym 
  *) 
  in 
  northwestern 
  Colombia. 
  The 
  39 
  specimens 
  

   of 
  A. 
  belzebuth 
  hybridus 
  collected 
  by 
  the 
  writer 
  in 
  northern 
  Colombia 
  

   were 
  examined 
  by 
  Kellogg 
  and 
  Goldman 
  (1944, 
  p. 
  25). 
  

  

  ATELES 
  BELZEBUTH 
  HYBRIDUS 
  I. 
  Geofifroy 
  

  

  Ateles 
  hybridus 
  I. 
  Geoffroy, 
  M^m. 
  Mus. 
  Hist. 
  Nat. 
  Paris, 
  vol. 
  17, 
  p. 
  168, 
  1829; 
  

   Mag. 
  Zool., 
  Paris, 
  vol. 
  2, 
  CI. 
  1, 
  pi. 
  1 
  (1832), 
  1832 
  (Magdalena 
  Valley, 
  Co- 
  

   lombia). 
  

  

  Ateles 
  albifrons 
  Gray, 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  monkeys, 
  lemurs 
  and 
  fruit-eating 
  bats 
  in 
  the 
  

   collection 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  p. 
  44, 
  1870 
  (type 
  locality. 
  South 
  America). 
  

  

  [Ateles 
  belzebuth] 
  brunneus 
  Gray, 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  monkeys, 
  lemurs, 
  and 
  fruit-eating 
  

   bats 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  p. 
  44, 
  1870 
  (type 
  locality, 
  

  

  "Brazil"). 
  

   Amer-anthropoides 
  loysi 
  Montandon, 
  Comptes 
  Rendu 
  Acad. 
  Sci. 
  Paris, 
  vol. 
  188, 
  

  

  No. 
  11, 
  p. 
  817, 
  1929 
  (type 
  locality, 
  left 
  affluent 
  of 
  upper 
  Rfo 
  Tarra, 
  Venezuela, 
  

  

  near 
  the 
  Colombian 
  border) 
  . 
  

   Ateles 
  belzebuth 
  hybridus, 
  Kellogg 
  and 
  Goldman, 
  Proc. 
  U, 
  S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus., 
  vol. 
  

  

  96, 
  pp. 
  4, 
  8, 
  25, 
  1944. 
  

  

  Lectotype. 
  — 
  ^Adult 
  female, 
  skin 
  mounted 
  with 
  skull, 
  M. 
  N.H.N, 
  type 
  

   catalogue 
  No. 
  75a, 
  accession 
  catalogue 
  No. 
  519(394). 
  The 
  original 
  

   description 
  is 
  of 
  "plusieurs 
  femelles 
  et 
  d'un 
  male 
  encore 
  jeune." 
  

   The 
  individual 
  figured 
  in 
  Geoffroy's 
  later 
  description 
  (op. 
  cit. 
  1833, 
  

   supra) 
  is 
  no 
  doubt 
  the 
  original 
  of 
  the 
  one 
  listed 
  by 
  Rode 
  (1938, 
  p. 
  29) 
  

   as 
  an 
  adult 
  male 
  and 
  "Holotype." 
  Examination 
  of 
  this 
  specimen 
  

   reveals 
  it 
  to 
  be 
  an 
  adult 
  female. 
  According 
  to 
  prescribed 
  usage, 
  the 
  

   specimen 
  should 
  be 
  designated 
  a 
  lectotype. 
  Two 
  cotypes 
  listed 
  by 
  

   Rode, 
  are 
  number 
  75b, 
  doubtlessly 
  the 
  "male 
  encore 
  jeune" 
  of 
  the 
  

   original 
  description, 
  and 
  75c, 
  indicated 
  as 
  a 
  female, 
  is 
  an 
  adult 
  male. 
  

   The 
  specimens 
  were 
  collected 
  in 
  1826, 
  by 
  Plee. 
  

  

  Type 
  locality. 
  — 
  Types 
  sent 
  to 
  Paris 
  from 
  the 
  Antilles 
  but 
  supposed 
  

   to 
  have 
  originated 
  in 
  the 
  Rio 
  Magdalena 
  Valley, 
  Colombia. 
  Type 
  

   locality 
  restricted 
  by 
  Kellogg 
  and 
  Goldman 
  (1944, 
  p. 
  25) 
  to 
  La 
  Gloria, 
  

   Rio 
  Magdalena, 
  a 
  few 
  kilometers 
  above 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Cesar, 
  

   department 
  of 
  Magdalena, 
  Colombia; 
  altitude, 
  45 
  meters 
  above 
  sea 
  

   level. 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  In 
  northern 
  Colombia, 
  departments 
  of 
  Magdalena, 
  

   Atldntico, 
  Bolivar, 
  the 
  Santanders, 
  and 
  extreme 
  southeastern 
  portion 
  

   of 
  the 
  Guajira; 
  in 
  northwestern 
  Venezuela, 
  from 
  the 
  Sierra 
  de 
  Perijd 
  

   to 
  Lake 
  Maracaibo. 
  

  

  * 
  Type 
  an 
  immature; 
  head, 
  tail, 
  upperparts 
  of 
  trunk 
  and 
  limbs 
  black, 
  chest, 
  belly, 
  inner 
  sides 
  of 
  upper 
  

   arms 
  and 
  thighs 
  rufous 
  (ex 
  type, 
  British 
  Museum). 
  

  

  