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rounded than in S. barbei and S. olscurus. The occipital region is 

 nearly vertical. 



Colour. Above dark ashy brown, darkest on the head and extre- 

 mities, including the tip of the tail, the basal portion of which is 

 albescent. Back from shoulders to loin silvery, or glistening. 

 Whiskers same colour as crown. Underparts whitish or white, 

 this colour not extending on to the limbs. Eyelids and a broad 

 area above the eyes whitish or white ; an area including the mouth 



Fig. 10. Semnopithecus yihayrei. (From a drawing by Col. Tickell.) 



and lips, and extending from the nostrils to the chin, flesh-colour ; 

 hairs around mouth white ; remainder of face leaden black. 



Young the same colour as adults ; the very young are, however, 

 straw-coloured according to Tickell. 



Dimensions. An adult female, according to Tickell, measured : 

 head and body 23 inches, tail 30, hand 4|, foot 6. Anderson 

 gives much smaller measurements : head and body 18-2 inches 

 tail 21-2, 



