THE TALAPOIN MONKEY, OR MELARHINE. 



CERCOPITHECUS TALAPOIN. (Cercopiihecus Talapoin, ERXLEBEN, Syst. Regn. An. 1777.) 



Talapoin BCFFON, Hist. Nat. xiv. tab. xl. 1766. 



Simla Talapoin GMELIN, Syst. Nat. Linn. 1788. 



Talapoin Monkey PENNANT, Synops. 1771, and Quadrup. 1793. 



Cercopithecus Talapoin GEOFFROY, Ann. du Mus. xix. 1812. 



Cercopithecus Talapoin KUHL, Beitr. 1820. 



Cercopithecus Talapoin DESMAREST, Mamm. p. 56. 



Melarhine, or Talapoin F. CUVIER and GEOFFROY, Mamm. vol. iii. August, 1824 . 



Simia Talapoin FISCHER, Synops. Mamm. p. 21. 1829. 



Cercopithecus Talapoin LESSON, Species des Mamm. p. 78. 1840. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. General colour above, olive green, below, whitish ; upper lip, 

 yellow, sprinkled with black hairs ; skin below the eyes, orange coloured ; above the 

 eyes, whitish ; rest of the face black ; whiskers, short, and of a pale straw, golden colour. 



LOCALITY. Western Africa. 



DESCRIPTION. In a good specimen of this Monkey (No. 41, Cat. Mamm. 



1838), in the museum of the Zoological Society, London, the nose and 



cheeks are black ; the upper lip is yellow, or yellow-white, sprinkled with 



black hairs, a few white ones also being scattered ovef the margin ; the naked 



skin round the eyes is orange-coloured ; the upper eyelids to the^super- 



