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white on the outer edge and inside of the thighs becomes a 

 bright chestnut-red, almost flame-colour. 1 The bay-thighed 

 monkey is one of the most charming pets imaginable. Usually 

 of a gentle and caressing disposition, it utters melodious 

 chirruppy cries of pleasure when approached by friends. It 

 quite revels in its own beauty of form and colour, and naively 

 solicits admiration, showing itself off in the prettiest postures. 

 For coloration it is perhaps the most beautiful of all mammals 

 and comes nearest to the bright colours of birds in its tints 

 of flame and lemon. To enhance this gorgeousness, the skin 

 of the male genitals is pale azure-blue. The Liberians call 

 the Diana monkey "Dandy Jack," a not inappropriate nick- 

 name on account of the pleasure this creature takes in its own 

 appearance and its fastidious cleanliness. 



The Colobus monkeys form a very distinct group by 

 themselves, limited in their range to Tropical Africa between 

 Abyssinia on the north and the Zambezi on the south. This 

 genus has no cheek pouches (unlike the baboons, mangabeys, 

 and Cercopitheci) and their stomachs are sacculated that is to 

 say, divided into a number of pouches like the closely allied 

 genus of Semnopithecus in Tropical Asia. The Colobi are even 

 more markedly leaf-eaters than is the case with their Asiatic 



1 For the information of those readers who may wish to distinguish the 

 true Diana from this sub-species, it might be stated that its coloration is as 

 follows : The very long beard, the whiskers and long hair on the chest and inner 

 side of the fore-limbs and hind-limbs, together with the outer edge of the thighs, 

 are pure white, very beautifully tinged here and there with lemon-colour. Along 

 the brow-ridge is a crescent-shaped fringe of white hairs, which gives rise to 

 the name because of its supposed resemblance to the crescent of the Hunting 

 Goddess. Across the haunches is a distinct though narrow streak of white 

 sometimes tinged with yellow. The top of the head and a line from the temples 

 to the ears are black. The bare skin of the face is bluish black. The upper 

 part of the body and the back are black, which is grizzled or speckled with white, 

 giving the animal a greyish mantle. The tail is jet black. The rump under the 

 tail is chestnut-brown, and the sides of the animal above the white streaks on 

 the haunches are also bright chestnut. 



