MONA MONKEY. 



CERCOPITHECUS MONA. (Cercopithecus Mona, ERXLEBEN, Syst. Regn. An. 1771.) 



La Mane BUFFON, Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 258, c. figura, tab. xxxvi. 1766. 



Varied Ape PENNANT, Quadrup. 1793, and Synops. 1771. 



Simla Mona SCHREBER, Saugth. 1775. 



Sitnia Mona GMELIN, Syst. Nat. Linn. 1788. 



Le Mona BUFFON, Supp. vii. pi. 19. 1789. 



La Mone AUDEBERT, Sim. et Makis, Fam. iv. sect, ii, 12. 1797. 



Cercopithecus Mona GF.OFFROY, in Ann. du Mus. xix. 1812. 



La Mone F. CUVIER, Mamm. fig. 1819. 



Cercopithecus Mona KUHL, Beitr. 1820. 



Cercopithecus Mona DESMAREST, Mamm. p. 58. 1820. 



Simia Mona FISCHER, Synops. Mamm. p. 17. 1829. 



Cercopithecus Mona LESSON, Species des Mamm. p. 74. 1840. 



Simia Mona F. CUVIER, Nouv. Diet. 



Simia Mona DESMOULINS, Diet. Class. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. Head of a yellowish olive colour; a black frontal stripe above the 

 eyebrows is surmounted by another of a whitish tint; back, chestnut brown; 

 haunches and limbs, externally, dusky black ; tail, black with a white spot on each 

 side of its origin, on the crupper; under parts, and inside of the limbs, white; whiskers 

 very full, of a yellowish tint, slightly washed with black. 



LOCALITY. Western Africa (Guinea). 



DESCRIPTION. Description of a specimen (No. 30, Cat. Mamm. 1838), 

 in the museum of the Zoological Society, London : The top of the head 

 is of a greenish yellow, mingled with black, each hair being black at the 

 base and point, and yellow in the middle ; the neck, back, and sides, as 

 far as the shoulders and haunches, are of a deep chestnut brown, minutely 

 speckled with black, the hairs being grey at the base, and then annulated 



