494 QUADRUMANA. 



that all subsequent naturalists have copied. The most remarkable 

 feature in this animal is the profusion of very long hair falling from the 

 head and shoulders, of a dirty yellowish colour, and which is compared, 

 by Pennant, to a " full-bottomed perriwig ;" while the hair on the limbs 

 and body is short. In the snowy whiteness of the tail, it agrees with two 

 species described by Mr. Ogilby: one under the title of Colobus ursinus, 

 the other under that of Colobus leucomeros. Both of these, however, 

 have their distinguishing characters. In both, the hair of the body is very 

 long, fine, and glossy, and not at all exceeded by that of the shoulders ; 

 the reverse of which is the case in C. polycomus. 



Pennant gives no account of the habits and manners of this species ; 

 but observes that, in Guinea, it is called Bey, or King Monkey, and that 

 the Negroes hold its skin in high estimation, using it for pouches, and for 

 coverings to their guns. 



THE GUEREZA MONKEY. 



COLOBUS GUEREZA. (Colobus Guereza, RUPPELL, in neue Wirbelthiere Saugethiere i. c. fig. 



tab. 1. 1835.) 



Guereza of the Abyssinians. 



Colobus Guereza LESSON, Species des Mamm. p. 68. 1840. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. General colour, black; sides of the body and top of the loins 

 ornamented with long pendent white hairs, forming a fringe-like mantle ; face 

 encircled by white ; tail ending in a white tuft. 



LOCALITIES. Godjam, Kulla, and Damot, South and West Abyssinia. 



DESCRIPTION. The contrast of deep black and snow white, and the 

 mantle of long flowing hairs which adorns the sides of this Colobus, 

 render it at once beautiful and remarkable. Beginning on the shoulders, 

 a series of long, flowing silky hair runs along each side of the body, 

 meeting over the loins, and forming a mantle, which falls gracefully from 

 the body, and hides the haunches and the thighs ; its colour is white ; a 

 white bar crosses the forehead and spreads over the sides of the face, the 

 throat, the sides of the neck, and the chin ; the colour of the body and 

 limbs, the outside of the thighs excepted, (this part being grizzled with 

 white), is glossy black ; the tail, at its basal half, is black, the apical half 

 white and full- tufted ; the skin of the face is black, but it is thinly covered 

 with short white hairs. 



ft. in. 



Length of adult from tip of nose to root of tail .... 2 4 

 Ditto tail 2 4J 



Specimens of this rare species are preserved in the British Museum ; 

 the museum of the Zoological Society, London (No. 25, in Cat. Mamm. 

 in Mus. Zool. Soc. 1838); the Museum of Paris; and the Museum of 

 Frankfort. 



