530 QUADRUMANA. 



Fred. Cuvier informs us, that, when young, its head, its neck (on the 

 upper part), its arms, fore-arms, hands, chest, belly, and tail, were black, 

 but of a deeper tint on the under parts, and on a considerable portion of 

 the tail, than elsewhere ; the back was speckled, each of the hairs being 

 annulated with black and while ; the whiskers, also, were speckled, though 

 not with white and black, but black and yellow ; on the forehead there 

 was a yellow band, in the shape of a crescent reversed ; and about the 

 chin a small quantity of white hair, but not forming a long beard ; a few 

 yellowish hairs garnished the callosities ; the face was of a violet tint, 

 blue predominating on the cheeks, and red on the muzzle and eye-lids. 

 The eyes were fawn-coloured, and the hands quite black. " At present," 

 our author, speaking of the animal in a mature state, says " the general 

 distribution of the colours is the same, but the white rings of the dorsal 

 hairs have become yellow : this colour, too, has augmented on the 

 whiskers ; the hairs on the higher internal parts of the thighs have become 

 annulated with grey and white, so that the coat there is of a delicate 

 ash colour ; the hairs on the tail are similarly annulated, except that, on 

 this organ, the darker rings are nearly black ; on the upper surfaces the 

 coat is abundant, but very scanty on the under, where, as on the other 

 parts of the body, the skin is bluish." 



It may here, by way of note, be added, that the annulations of the hairs 

 of the back appeared to be white ; but the yellow tint may have faded 

 since death. Two specimens, entitled Cercopithecus dilophos, exist in 

 the Museum of Leyden, and are said to have been brought from Guinea ; 

 in one, the lunate stripe over the eyes is slightly sprinkled with brown ; in 

 the other, it is purely white. 



GENERAL HISTORY. All we know respecting the habits of the present 

 Monkey, is derived from the only living specimen ever seen in Europe ; 

 namely, that now in the Paris Museum. According to Fred. Cuvier, 

 they closely resemble those of the Diana and the Mona ; but the C. 

 leucampyx is far larger, and more robust and powerful than either of 

 these two species, and must be, when irritated, more formidable. Fred. 

 Cuvier does not particularize any traits of its disposition, and, being a 

 female, the evil features of its character were, probably, far less prominent 

 than would be the case in the male. Excepting, perhaps, in certain 

 limited districts, this animal must be very rare, for no example has been 

 hitherto imported into our island. 



TEMMINCK'S MONKEY. 



CERCOPITHECUS TEMMINCKTI. (Cercopithecus Temminckii, OGILBY, in Menageries, Mon- 

 keys, Lemurs, and Oppossums, part ii. p. 345. 1838.) 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. General colour, ashy grey, freckled with white; limbs, black; 



chin and throat, white ; face, naked, and of a pale lead colour. 

 LOCALITY. Guinea. 



