148 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



The Mission Zoologique Franco-Anglo-Americaine of 1929-31 col- 

 lected six specimens (Delacour, 1932, p. 220) . 



Milne-Edwards's Sifaka. Propitheque d'Edwards (Fr.) 



PROPITHECUS DIADEMA EDWARDSI Grandidier 



Propithecus Edwardsi Grandidier, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. [Paris], vol. 72, 

 p. 232, 1871. ("Les forets situees dans Pouest de Mananzary, a Mada- 

 gascar" ; type locality further delimited by Milne Edwards and Grandidier 

 (1875a, p. 303) as "la foret de Manampahy," in southeastern Madagascar.) 



SYNONYM: Propithecus bicolor Gray (1872). 



FIG.: Milne Edwards and Grandidier, 18756, pi. 3. 



No information is at hand concerning the numerical status of 

 this subspecies. 



It is entirely black, save for an area of rufous-white on each 

 side of the loins; face naked and black; ears well developed and 

 covered with long hairs. Head and body, 640 mm.; tail, 460 mm. 

 (Grandidier, 1871, p. 232.) Milne Edwards and Grandidier (1875a, 

 p. 303) give additional details: black areas lightly washed with 

 rufous; a narrow band of reddish black separating the light lumbar 

 areas; a light reddish spot at the base of the tail; considerable 

 variation in coloration evident, some individuals exhibiting an ap- 

 proach to P. d. diadema, and others to P. d. holomelas. 



This Sifaka inhabits the narrow bands of forests that partly 

 cover the * eastern slope of the mountains between the Rivers 

 Masora (about 20 S.) and Matitanana (about 22 S.) (Milne 

 Edwards and Grandidier, 1875a, pp. 304-305) . 



Schwarz (1931, p. 422) is in error in placing the type locality east 

 of Masindrano, which would be somewhere in the Indian Ocean. 

 He records specimens from: Ampitambe, Betsimisaraka country; 

 Ivohimanitra, Tanala; Ambohimotombo, N. Tanala; and Vinani- 

 telo, "S.W." [=S.E.] Betsileo. "The specimens from Vinanitelo 

 would indicate a considerable extension of the range on the central 

 plateau." 



Black Sifaka 



PROPITHECUS DIADEMA HOLOMELAS Giinther 



Propithecus holomelas Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 16, p. 125, 

 1875. ("Fienerentova" Fianarantsoa, central Betsileo, Madagascar.) 



Very little information about the Black Sifaka has ever been 

 assembled. 



Nearly as large as P. d. edwardsi. "Throat and all the lower 

 parts covered with dense fine woolly hair. Male with a small patch 

 of ferruginous hairs ... in the middle of the chest . . . ; in the 



