1907.] MONKEYS OF THE GENUS CERCOPITHECUS. 741 



Cercopithecus talapoin Schreber. 



Subsp. TALAPOIN Schreb. (Plate XLII. fig. 6.) 



Simia tcdcqjoin Schreber, Siiug. i. pi, xvii., 1774. 



Cercojnthecns talapoin Erxl. Syst. Regni Anim. p. 36, 1777; 

 and of recent authors. 



Miojnthecus talapoin Is. Geoffr. St. H., C.R. Acad. Sci. xv. 

 p. 720, 1842 ; id. Diet. Hist. Nat. iii. p. 309, 1845. 



Simia melarhina F. Cuv. Regn. Anim. nouv. ed. p. 92, 1829. 



Skin of face pallid ; nose, upper and lower lips clothed with 

 black hair ; no superciiiaiy pale band on head. Hairs on cheeks 

 mostly golden yellow, many of them apicallj^ infuscate ; a black 

 streak running backwards from the corner of the eye halfway 

 towards the ear ; the hairs on the anterior half of the area between 

 the eye and ear directed backwards, those on the posterior half 

 radiating from a point near the middle of the ear upwards, for-' 

 wards, and downwards, forming a well-defined semicircular tract. 

 Hair on lower portion of cheek longish, and directed straight 

 backwards. Ears flesh-coloured or black, with some blackish haii-s 

 or black and yellow hairs on them. Summit of head, nape of neck, 

 and back uniform dark olive-yellow, the hairs greyish on the 

 basal two-thirds, black distally and marked with one golden- 

 yellow band, which is narrower than the black terminal portion : 

 hence black preponderates on these areas. On the shoulder and 

 hips the yellow begins to increase in extent at the expense of the 

 black. This is still more emphasized on the arms and legs, which 

 are externally golden yellow ; hands and feet also golden yellow 

 above. Chin, throat, chest, belly, and inside of limbs greyish 

 white, the limbs becoming yellower distally. Tail with its dorsal 

 surface the same colour as the back, becoming blacker distally ; 

 lower surface golden yellow at base, then greyer, and becoming 

 blackish distally. Hairs round anus and on pubic and scrotal 

 regions and back of thighs golden yellow. 



Measurements : — 



2 . Head and body 340 mm., tail 380 mm. 



6 • ,, ,, 350 ,, ,, 37o ,, 



Loc. Cameroons and Congo. 



The above-given description is taken from two specimens in the 

 British Museum collected by Mr. G. L. Bates. The male was 

 taken 30 miles from the mouth of the Benito River, at an altitude 

 of 200-300 feet ; the female from the Como River, 70 miles from 

 the Gaboon, where it was caught in a swamp almost on the sea- 

 level. 



The female is decidedly less richly coloured than the male. 



