SIMIAD.E. 495 



GENERAL HISTORY. According to Riippell, the Guereza lives in 

 small families, tenanting the lofty trees in the neighbourhood of running 

 waters. It is active and lively, without being unruly ; and its disposition 

 is gentle and inoffensive. Its food consists of wild fruits, grain, insects, 

 &c. Its habits are diurnal during the day it feeds, and it passes the night 

 in sleep under the branches. It is only found in the provinces of Godjam, 

 Kulla, and Damot, more especially in the latter, where it is hunted by the 

 natives, who consider it a mark of distinction to possess a buckler covered 

 with the skin of this animal ; the part used being that from which flow the 

 long white hairs. 



Guereza is the Abyssinian name of this species of Monkey, and 

 Ludolph (in the Hist. JEthiopica, lib. i. cap. 10), has made express 

 allusion to it ; the animal, however, which he figures under this name is 

 not the Guereza, but another species. Salt, in his Second Journey \in 

 Abyssinia, also speaks of the Guereza ; but, according to Riippell, it does 

 not exist in those parts of the country visited by the former learned 

 traveller. 



THE URSINE COLOBUS. 



COLOBUS URSINUS. (Colobus ursinus, OGILBY, in Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1835, p. 98). 

 Colobus ursinus LESSON, Species des Mamm. p. 70. 1840. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. Fur very long, glossy, and black ; head, greyish white ; tail 



white, tufted at the extremity. 

 LOCALITY. Western Africa, Sierra Leone. 



DESCRIPTION. The fur is long and glossy, and of a jet black, over 

 the whole of the body and limbs ; the head, the back of the neck, and 

 the throat, are of a silvery greyish white, becoming grizzled and inter- 

 mixed with black, as this colour merges into the black of the body ; the 

 tail is long, and snowy white, with short hair, and slightly tufted at the 

 end. The length of the fur on the back is about six inches. 



The above description was taken from a fine skin, brought from Sierra 

 Leone, by Major Henry Dundas Campbell, late governor of Sierra Leone, 

 and exhibited at one of the scientific meetings of the Zoological Society 

 (See Proceedings for 1838, p. 61). It is now in the Museum, 27 c, in 

 Suppl. to Cat. Mamm. 1839. 



Previously to the arrival of this skin three imperfect specimens only 

 existed in the museum of the Zoological Society. (Nos. 27, 27 a, 27 b, 

 of Cat. of Mamm. 1838). Two of these, which were said to have been 

 obtained from Algoa Bay, were exhibited before the scientific meeting of 

 the Zoological Society, June 26, 1832, and were regarded by Mr. Bennett 

 as referable to the Colobus polycomus ; the long milk-white tail, he 

 observes, contrasted with the bright black fur of the body, being fully 



