ORDER PRIMATES: PRIMATES 151 



Up to about 30 years ago, Coquerel's Sifaka was very common 

 in parts of northwestern Madagascar (Kaudern, 1915, p. 4). On 

 the other hand, not a single specimen seems to have been taken by 

 the Mission Zoologique Franco-Anglo-Americaine of 1929-31 (Dela- 

 cour, 1932, p. 220). 



General color white; a band of reddish brown extending across 

 the chest and onto the arms ; a spot of the same color on the upper 

 part of the legs; crown, hands, and inner side of the limbs pure 

 white; face covered with very short white hairs; tail slender; fur 

 woolly. Head and body of the type (a young individual) , 250 mm. ; 

 tail, 220 mm. (A. Milne-Edwards, in Grandidier, 1867c, p. 314.) 

 Adults have the head, cheeks, nape, and back yellowish white ; loins 

 dark reddish gray; sides and pelvic region dirty white; outer 

 side of arms and anterior side of thigh dark chestnut-rufous; tail 

 reddish gray (Milne Edwards and Grandidier, 1875a, p. 315) . Total 

 length of adults, 3 feet 4 inches (Schlegel, 1876, p. 293) . 



This Sifaka is found only on the northwest coast of Madagascar, 

 from the south side of Narinda Bay to the north side of the Bay of 

 Bombetoka, between the Rivers Loza and Betsiboka. Numerous 

 specimens from this region have been examined. (Milne Edwards 

 and Grandidier, 1876, pp. 315-316.) 



Lorenz-Liburnau (1898, p. 454) records five specimens from Bet- 

 sako and two from near-by Ambundube, north of the Bay of Bom- 

 betoka. 



The animal is very common in the forests on the Ankarafantsika 

 Plateau, where it wanders about in bands of 3 to 10 or 12 individuals. 

 It was observed in several places between the Betsiboka and Maha- 

 jamba Rivers. At Ste. Marie de Marovoay, on the Betsiboka, several 

 hundred were seen in the wild, and about 60 specimens were shot. 

 (Kaudern, 1915, p. 4, map, p. 5.) 



Additional specimens from Island Nosy Komba and from Am- 

 batondrazaka, south of Lake Alaotra, are recorded by Schwarz 

 (1931, p. 423). "The specimen from Ambatondrazaka . . . shows 

 an eastern extension of the range as far as Lake Alaotra." 



Crowned Sifaka. Propitheque couronne (Fr.) 



PROPITHECUS VERREAUXI CORONATUS A. Milne Edwards 



P[ropithecus] coronatus "Pollen" A. Milne Edwards, Rev. Scientifique, ser. 2, 

 year 1, no. 10, p. 224, 1871. (Type locality not stated; restricted by Elliot 

 (1913, vol. 1, p. 174) to "Province of Boeny on the Bay of Bombetok, 

 Madagascar.") 



SYNONYM: Propithecus damanus Schlegel (1876). 



FIG.: Milne Edwards and Grandidier, 18756, pi. 7. 



About 30 years ago the Crowned Sifaka was reported as common 

 (Kaudern, 1915, p. 6), but apparently none were taken by the 



