SIMIAD^E. 499 



TEMMINCK'S COLOBUS. 



COLOBUS TEMMINCKII. (Colobus Temminckii, KUHL, Beitr. 1820.) 



Colobus Temminckii DESMAHEST, Mamm. p. 53. 1820. 



Colobus fuliginosus OGILBY, in Zool. Proceedings, p. 97. 1835. 



Colobus Temminckii LESSON, Species des Mamm. p. 69. 1840. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. General colour of the upper parts sooty black, darker on the 

 head; sides of the body, limbs, and tail, ferruginous; under parts yellowish white, 

 sometimes whitish. 



LOCALITY. Gambia, Western Africa. 



DESCRIPTION. The top of the head is black, as is also the occiput, 

 which latter is slightly sprinkled with rufous ; the back, and the outside 

 of the humerus, and of the thighs, are fuliginous, or of a sooty black colour, 

 with a slate-blue tint ; the sides of the face, the chest, the sides of the 

 humerus, and the whole of the fore-arms are of a rufous colour, which be- 

 comes deeper and brighter on the hands : the anterior part of the thighs, 

 the knees, and the legs, are also rufous, the feet being of a deeper hue ; 

 the throat, together with a line along the sides of the chest and of the 

 abdomen, are of a sandy yellow ; the middle of the chest, and of the abdo- 

 men is abruptly of a dirty yellowish white, varying to white ; the tail, at 

 the base, is black, with rufous hairs intermixed ; it then assumes a chest- 

 nut red, or rufous colour, becoming darker at the extremity, where black 

 hairs are numerously intermixed : an obscure dusky line runs along the 

 whole of its upper surface ; the tip is somewhat tufted. The naked skin 

 of the face is brown, with a tinge of red purple ; the palms and soles are 

 of a purplish black. 



ft. in. 



Length of head and body 22 



Ditto tail 26 



The preceding description of this remarkable species, is taken from a 

 fine specimen in the museum of the Zoological Society, London (No. 26 

 of Suppl. Cat. Mamm. 1839). 



Fischer, induced, probably, by the authority of Temminck, has united 

 this animal (the Colobus Temminckii) with the Colobus ferruginosus, 

 or Bay Monkey of Pennant, which he would not have done had he 

 attended to the description of Pennant, who states the back of the Colobus 

 ferruginosus to be of a deep bay colour; whereas Kuhl describes the 

 Colobus Temminckii as having the head, neck, back, shoulders, and outer 

 face of the thighs black ; the hands, face, and tail, purplish red ; the rest 

 of the members clear red ; the belly reddish yellow. 



It was on a very pale coloured and aged female of this species, in the 

 museum of the Zoological Society, London (No. 26, in Cat. Mamm. 

 1838), brought from the river Gambia, that Mr. Ogilby founded his 



