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THE BEARDED MONKEY. 



CERCOPITHECUS POGONIAS. (Cercopithecus Pogonias, BENNETT, in Proceedings Zool. Soc. 



1833. p. 67.) 



Cercopithecus Pogonias 



. LESSON, in Species des Mamm. p. 74. 1840. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. General colour blackish, freckled with white; the middle of the 

 back, the crupper , the tail above and at the tip, and a stripe on the temples, black ; 

 forehead and limbs, externally, yellowish, punctulate with black ; whiskers long and 

 full, and of a yellowish white ; under parts generally, rufous yellow. 



LOCALITY. Fernando Po. 



DESCRIPTION. Description of specimens (No. 33, Catalogue, and 33 

 a, Suppl. Cat. Mamm. 1838-9) in the museum of the Zoological Society, 

 London : The hairs of the upper surface are black, ringed with whitish, 

 producing a grizzled appearance, which occupies the back part of the 

 head, the fore-part of the back, the sides, the outer surface of the 

 anterior limbs, and the posterior hands ; in the middle of the back com- 

 mences a broad black patch, which extends to the tail, and is continued 

 along its upper surface for about two-thirds of the length of that organ, 

 the remaining portion being black both above and below ; on the fore- 



