Chap. I IT. NEW VARIETY OF CHIMPANZEE. 47 



recejDtion altogether was most hearty. I hunted in 

 the 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 new 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. There 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 appears 

 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 Nschiego 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 Museum. 

 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 Eqiiatorial Africa,' pp. 270 and 360. 



