NO. 17 UNGULATES AND PRIMATES FROM AFRICA — HELLER 9 



There are three female specimens of this race from Mazeras in the 

 National Museum. The type is fully adult with the sphenoidal 

 sutures of the skull anchylosed but the two others are somewhat im- 

 mature. This small series has been compared with rive females of 

 kolbi from the Aberdares and Kenia and five females of kima from 

 the Taita Hills. From these two races they arc easily distinguishable 

 by their light coloration and absence of black lining to the pelage. 

 Maritima is a lighter and somewhat smaller race confined to the 

 forests clothing' the summits of the coast hills. 



LASIOPYGA ALBOGULARIS KIMA, new subspecies 

 Taita Forest Monkey 



Type from Mount Mbololo, Taita District, British East Africa: 

 adult male. Cat. Xo. 182242, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; collected by Edmund 

 Heller. November 6, 191 1 ; original number, 2^^=,. 



Characters. — Resembling closely Lasiopyga albogularis kolbi of 

 the Kikuyu highlands from which it is distinguishable by its lighter 

 and less rufous back, the smaller extent of the white throat patch 

 and collar and the smaller body size. From kibonotensis of Kiliman- 

 jaro it is distinguishable by the white of the throat patch extending 

 farther upward on the sides of the neck toward the nape. In this 

 character it is quite intermediate between kolbi and the latter, but it 

 is lighter colored and smaller than either of these races. 



Flesh measurements of the type: length of head and body. 510 

 mm.; tail, 600 (defective at tip, perfect tail usually 725) ; hindfoot, 

 150; ear, 38. Skull: greatest length, 113; basilar length, 83; zygo- 

 matic breadth, j~ ; post orbital constriction, 44 : median length of 

 nasals, 20; length of upper molar series, 27 : width of palate at last 

 molar, 22. Skull of type old with the middle incisors much worn 

 and with the temporal ridges uniting" at the parietal suture but not 

 forming a high narrow crest. 



Ten specimens of this race are in the National Museum collected 

 by the Rainey Expedition upon Mount Mbololo and Mount Umengo 

 of the Taita Hill region. They are confined to the forests at the ex- 

 treme summits of the hills, and their cover is at present rapidly dis- 

 appearing before the ax and fire of the agricultural Wataita who are 

 constantly enlarging their fields at the expense of the forest. The 

 Wataita are fond of the flesh of the kima and owing to their perse- 

 cution it is extremely shy and difficult to stalk. The name kima is 

 used universally by the Swahili for this monkey and it is also em- 

 ployed by the Wataita who occasionally corrupt it to gima. 



