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shoulders, as already observed, has a partial mixture of silvery white 

 on the anterior face just where the head has been cut off; but it is 

 not longer than the hair upon the rest of the body and limbs, which 

 is moreover 5 or 6 inches in length, and in texture and appearance 

 not unlike that of the Ursus labiatus. The whole animal in fact re- 

 sembles a small Bear, and is covered with the same uniform, long, 

 black, and glossy fur upon every part except the tail, which, at the 

 root more particularly, is furnished with much shorter hair. Whe- 

 ther or not this species, like the polycomos, has the head ofa differ- 

 ent colour from the body, is a subject for further observation : the 

 white or silvery hairs already mentioned as still remaining about the 

 shoulders, render it extremely probable that it has, but in no case 

 can it form the striking contrast in length, nor present the long flow- 

 ing mane or wig-like appearance ascribed to the animal observed by 

 Pennant, Mr. Gould, who procured these skins for the Society, re- 

 ported them as coming from Algoa Bay ; we know enough of the 

 zoology of that part of Africa, to render this account extremely 

 doubtful, and the probability is, either that Mr. Gould was misin- 

 formed, or that he may have mistalcen Delagoa Bay for Algoa, which, 

 from the similarity of sound, might readily happen. If this conjec- 

 ture should prove correct, it would follow that the Col. Ursinus was 

 the analogue of the Col. polycomos on the opposite coast, and the 

 conjecture receives further countenance from the fact of many other 

 known species of Mammals having such analogues in the same loca- 

 lities. 



3. Col. Guereza, Riipp., with the head, face, neck, back, limbs, 

 and basal half of the tail, covered with short black hair; the temples, 

 chin, throat, and a band over the eyes, white ; the sides, flanks from 

 the shoulder downwards, loins and buttocks, clothed with long flow- 

 ing white, which hangs down on each side like a loose garment ; the 

 tip of the tail furnished with a tuft of dirty wliite. Described and 

 figured by Dr. Ruppell in his ' Neue Wirbelthiere.' 



4. Co/. yerrwjrzwosMS, Geofl^., " with a black crown ; back of a deep 

 bay colour ; outside of the limbs black ; cheeks, under part of the 

 body, and legs of a very bright bay ; tail black." This species, ori- 

 ginally thus described by Pennant, was, like the Col. polycomos, 

 brought from Sierra Leone. 



5 . Col.fuliginosus. Smoky blue above, dirty yellowish gray beneath ; 

 with the cheeks, throat, tail and extremities brick red. Brought 

 from the Gambia. 



6. Col. Temminckii, Kuhl, " with the hands, face, and tail, purp- 

 lish red ; rest of the members, clear red ; belly, reddish yellow ; 

 head, neck, back, shoulders and outer face of the thighs, black." 

 Habitat unknown : described from a specimen formerly in Bullock's 

 Museum and now in that of Leyden. Notwithstanding some slight 

 discrepancies, I agree with Mr. Bennett in referring to this species 

 the two other skins of the Society's Collection, noticed by him 

 in the Part of the ' Proceedings' eilready referred to. These skins 



