20 African Zoology. 



Genus Cercopithecus. Geoff. 



Incisors i, canines \ \, molars f ?, — 32. Fascial angle 50" ; 



head round; forehead lapering behind; no superciliary ridges; 



edges of the orbits smooth ; nose flat; nostrils open to the ttasal 



fossee; ears moderate; cheek pouches and callosities 07i the 



buttocks I tail longer than the body. 



Cercopithecus Talapoin. Geoff. (Talapoin Monkey). Face 

 dusky black ; ears large, round, and black ; hair on the sides 

 of the face very long and directed backwards towards the 

 ears ; on tlie chin a small beard ; colour of the upper parts 

 olivaceous with a blackish cast on the outsides of the limbs ; 

 under parts of the body and inside of the limbs whitish yellow ; 

 tail olivaceous above, ash coloured beneath; hands black. 

 Length of body about a foot, length of tail nearly a foot and a 

 half. 



Inhabits Africa. Guinea, Buff on. 



Simia talapoin, Lin. Gm. Talapoin, Buff. lA-fig, 40. Simia 

 talapoin, Schreb^^r. 17. Talapoin Monkey, Pcnn. Quad. 206, 



Cercopithecus cephtis. Geoff. (Mustache Monkey). Nose 

 short and of a dirty bluish colour ; beneath it a transverse 

 white stripe ; edges of both lips and space round eyes black ; 

 on each cheek, before the ear, a large tuft of yellow hair ; 

 ears round and tufted with whitish hairs. On the top of the 

 head the hair is long and upright ; round the mouth there 

 are some black hairs ; colour of the head yellow variegated 

 with black ; body, limbs, and part of tail, a mixture of red and 

 ash colours, the rest of the tail yellowish ; hands black. 

 Length of body seldom more than a foot, tail about eighteen 

 inches. 



Inhabits Guinea. 



Simia cephus, Idn. Sys. Nat, p. 39. Moustac, Buff. 14, 

 p. 283. pi. 39. 



The Mustache, Pen. Quad. p. 205. Simia cephus, Schreb. 

 fig. 19. Simia mona, Screb,y?5r. 15. 



Cercopithecus nictitans. Geoff. (White-nosed Monkey). Face 

 flat and black ; nose pure white ; eyes yellow ; head, back, 

 and sides, black, sprinkled with greenish grey ; belly white ; 

 hands black ; tail very long, black above and white beneath. 



Inhabits Guinea and Angola. 



Simia nictitans, Lin. 12. 1. Schreb. jf?^. 19 A. Guenon a long 

 nez preeminent. All. ct Buff. Supp. l,fig. 18. Hochcur. Aud. 

 fam. A, sect. I. fig, 2. White Nose Monkey, Pou. Quad, 205. 



