ORDER PRIMATES: PRIMATES 149 



female this patch is replaced by two smaller ones ... of a whitish 

 colour. All the upper parts deep black, except the back of the root 

 of the tail, which is brownish. Abdomen greyish brown. A few 

 whitish hairs at the extremity of the tail." Head and body, 23 inches; 

 tail, 15-16 inches. (Glinther, 1875a, p. 125.) 



Schwarz (1931, p. 423) records specimens from: Fianarantsoa ; 

 S. Betsileo; Nandihizana, N. Betsileo; and "Ambavombe," south 

 [ = west?] of Fort Dauphin, S. coast. "The range of this race 

 appears to be the inland mountain range in the south-east of 

 Madagascar, whereas P. d. edwardsi inhabits the coast range. I have 

 little doubt as regards the distinctness of the two races." 



Verreaux's Sifaka. Propitheque de Verreaux (Fr.) 



PROPITHECUS VERREAUXI VERREAUXI Grandidier 



Propithecus Verreauxi Grandidier, Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 19, p. 84, 1867. 

 ("Les contrees arides et sablonneuses ou habitent les Antandroui's, les 

 Mahfales, et les Antitenes"; type locality restricted by Schwarz (1931, 

 p. 424) to "Tsifanihy, Prov. Antandroy, north of Cape Ste. Marie, S. 

 Madagascar." "Mananzari," erroneously stated by Elliot (1913, vol. 1, 

 p. 172) to be the type locality, is outside the entire range of the species.) 



FIGS.: Grandidier, Album de Tile de la Reunion, vol. 4, pis. 1, 2, 1867; 

 Milne Edwards and Grandidier, 18756, pis. 4, 8. 



This Sifaka has been reported as common in Madagascar from 

 Flacourt's time (1661) to the present. 



It is similar to P. d. diadema but with a smaller body, longer 

 tail, and more whitish pelage; crown and nape rufous-brown; 

 shoulders and sides yellowish white; a gray dorsal patch often 

 present; limbs and hands white; face black, almost naked, with 

 some white hairs; under parts and inner side of limbs white; tail 

 white except at base; throat with a small longitudinal rufous spot. 

 Head and body, 490-500 mm.; tail, 450-600 mm. (Grandidier, 

 1867a, p. 84.) 



Schwarz (1931, p. 424) records specimens from: Tulear, SW. 

 coast; Morondava, W. coast; Bemamanga near Morondava; Anta- 

 nosy country; and Ankazoabo, central SW. Madagascar. "Accord- 

 ing to A. Milne-Edwards and Grandidier the range of P. v. ver- 

 reauxi includes the whole south-western part of Madagascar from 

 the Tsidsobon River on the west coast to the region of Ft. Dauphin 

 in the south-east. Nothing is known of the exact limits of the range, 

 neither in the east, where it should meet P. d. holomelas, nor in 

 the west, where no record exists for the region between the Manan- 

 bolo and Tsidsobon Rivers, where either this race or P. v. deckeni 

 should occur." 



Flacourt (1661, p. 153) reported many of these Sifakas in the 



