WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



are very fantastic and can hardly be taken seriously. 

 The late Von Koppcnfeld and Mr. Zenker have given us 

 some reliable information regarding these primates which 

 stand next to man. 



I became very well acquainted, during my stay in 

 the Masai highlands, with a most interesting member 

 of the Old-World monkey family, the white-tailed colo- 

 bus, or guereza (Colobus caudatus), the "mbega" of the 

 natives. This monkey, which is shy and retiring, lives 

 in the tops of high trees and feeds chiefly on leaves. 

 The guerezas are large, black-and-white-colored animals 

 with long and silky hair and white, bushy tails, their 

 bearded faces having a serious and often sad expression. 

 I found them in goodly numbers in the forests of the 

 Kilimanjaro and the Meru mountain. They feed in 

 the morning and evening, stripping the twigs of their 

 leaves with their thumbless hands, eating greedily, and 

 bellowing all the time. They are arboreal in their 

 habits, living in small troops in the tops of gigantic 

 trees, preferring those which are overgrown with beard- 

 grass, the whitish- gray color of which blends with the 

 fur of the monkeys. When the "mbega" jumps from 

 branch to branch and from tree -top to tree -top, ex- 

 tending the long, white tail and spreading the hair of 

 the body, it looks as if the beard -grass were becoming 

 alive and assuming animal form to escape into the 

 darkness of the deeper forest. 



This tree-monkey is not adapted to walking, and is 



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