Chap. III. NEW VAEIETY OF CHIMPANZEE. 47 



reception altogether was most liearty. I liiinted in 

 tlie neighbourhood during my stay. The country 

 was varied in its surface, prairie land and scattered 

 woods. The woods were inhabited by a good many 

 chimpanzees, but the gorilla was not known in the 

 district. We succeeded in killing an adult female 

 chimpanzee of a variety nev/ to me, and called by 

 the natives Nkengo Nschiego. It is distinguished 

 from the common form of the chimpanzee by its face 

 being yellow. All the specimens of the old bald- 

 headed chimpanzee (Nschiego Mbouve') that I have 

 found had black faces, except when quite young, 

 when the face is white and not yellow, as I have de- 

 scribed in ' Equatorial Africa ; ' and the common chim- 

 panzee, although yellow-faced when young, becomes 

 gradually black as it grows old. Tliere are, there- 

 fore, three varieties of the chimpanzee distinguished 

 by the negroes of Equatorial Africa. I do not here 

 include the Kooloo Kamba.* I was extremely sorry 

 at not being able to obtain further specimens of this 

 last-mentioned ape on my present journey ; it nppears 

 to be very rare. I was told that the Nschiego 

 Mbouve was also found in these woods. 



I found here also several of the bowers made by 

 the Nkengo Nschfego of branches of trees, and they 

 were somewhat different in form from those I found 

 in my former journey. I had two of them cut 

 down, and sent them to the British IMuseum. 

 They are formed at a height of twenty or thirty feet 

 in the trees b}^ the animals bending over and inter- 

 twining a number of the weaker boughs, so as to 



* Figured in 'Adventures in Equatorial Africa,' pji. 270 and SCO. 



