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APES, MONKEYS, AND LEMURS 



shaggy appearance, recalling, as an earlier writer has observed, that of the sloth 

 bear of India. The length of the head and body is 32 inches, while that of the tail 

 reaches 40 inches. 



Although this species is mentioned by Du Chaillu as inhabiting Western Equa- 

 torial Africa, it is to be regretted that we have no record of its mode of life. 



, THE URSINE COI.OB AND BI.ACK COI.OB. 



(One-eighth natural size.) 

 THE KING MONKEY (Colobus polycomus) 



The king monkey of Sierra Leone is one of the few colobs that have been ex- 

 hibited alive in the Gardens of the London Zoological Society, a single specimen 

 having been purchased in the spring of 1873. It has no crest on the head, but a 

 long mane on the throat and chest, the hair of the sides of the body being likewise 

 long. The general color is black, but the mane, the forehead, and the sides of the 

 face, as well as the whole of the tail, are of a dazzling white. The tail has a well- 

 marked tuft at the end, and the entire coat of hair is very gloss} 7 . 



