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THE MALBROUCK MONKEY. 



CERCOPITHECUS CYNOSURUS. (Cercopithecus Cynosurus, GEOFFROY, Ann. du Mus. xix. 1812.) 



Simla Cynosurus SCOPOLI, deliciae florae et faunae, p. 44, tab. 19 male(?) 



Simla Faunus LINN^US, Syst. Nat. Ed. 10. 1758 (?) 



Malbrouck BUFFON, Hist. Nat. xiv. c. fig. 29 female. 1766. 



Callitriche Var AUDEBERT, Hist. Sing, and Mak. Fam. iv. sect. 2, pi. 7. 1797. 



Dog-tailed Baboon SHAW, Gen. Zool. i. p. 32. 1800. 



Le Malbrouck F. CUVIER, Mamm. pi. 22. 1819. 



Cercopithecus Cynosurus .... KHUL, Beitr. 1820. 

 Cercopithecus Cynosurus .... DESMAREST, Mamm. p. 60. 1820. 



Simla Cynosurus FISCHER, Synops. Mamm. p. 22. 1829. 



Cercopithecus Tephrops BENNETT, in Proceedings Zool. Soc. p. 109. 1833. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. Colour of upper parts, greenish brown, or olive, of under parts 

 whitish ; limbs, externally, greyish ; face, of a pale flesh colour ; nose and cheeks,, 

 covered with scattered, short, dusky -black hairs; muzzle, thick ; scrotum, blue, sur- 

 rounded with rust-coloured hairs. 



LOCALITY. Western Africa. (Guinea?) 



DESCRIPTION. Description of an adult male (No. 40, a, Cat. Mamm. 

 1838), in the museum of the Zoological Society, London. The colour 

 of the top of the head and upper surface is olive green, and resembles that 

 of the Green Monkey (Cere, sabseus), having the separate hairs, which are 

 cinereous at the roots, ringed with black and yellow ; on the outside of the 

 fore-arms and legs the olive passes into a grizzled greyish hue, the rings 

 on the hairs of these parts being black and white. The under surface is 

 nearly pure white, and this colour extends to the insides of the limbs and to 

 the sides of the neck anteriorly, where the hairs do not attain a sufficient 



