COLOBUS 127 
Measurements. Total length, 1,380; tail, 690; foot, 170. No skull. 
Ex type British Museum. i iti 
Female. Top of head crested, and together with outer side of 
arms, brick red; hands blackish; back of head chestnut; back of neck 
and upper parts black with a brownish tinge on rump; outer side of 
legs Prout’s brown becoming blackish on feet; under parts like male; 
tail black. 
Measurements. Total length, 1,280; tail, 675; foot, 150. Skull: 
total length, 104.6; occipito-nasal length, 88.5; intertemporal width, 
39.5; width of braincase, 54.5; Hensel, 76.2; zygomatic width, 72.7; 
palatal length, 38.2; median length of nasals, 13.2; length of upper 
molar series, 29; length of mandible, 73.2; length of lower molar 
series, 36. 
This species is nearest to C. NIGRIMANUS Trouess., but differs 
in having the top of the head brick red, not dark brownish red, and 
the sides of the head chestnut red, not grayish white tinged with 
yellow ; and the chest pale rusty, not dark yellowish brown, and the 
thighs gray instead of bright red. The tail is also different, the blackish 
maroon of the basal part and the rest black, contrasting with the three 
fourths dark red, and remainder, dull dark maroon tail of the allied 
species. 
CoLozus PREUssI Matschie. 
Colobus preussi Matschie, Sitzungsb. Ges. Natur. Freunde, Ber- 
lin, 1900, p. 183. 
Type locality. Barombi, Cameroon, West Africa. Type in Berlin 
Museum. 
Geogr. Distr. Cameroon, West Africa. 
Color. Top of head black speckled with brick red; back of head 
and neck, (the hairs on sides of head falling over ears), and upper 
part of body black, the hairs rather indistinctly speckled with red 
on upper back, but more pronounced on lower back and rump where 
they give a tinge of red over that part; sides of face, arms, hands, 
flanks, legs, feet, and tail dark brick red; inner side of limbs yellowish 
white; chin, line on center of throat, chest and center of abdomen 
yellowish white; rest of under parts pale brick red; tail dark brick red 
for two thirds the length, grading to purplish red on apical portion. 
Measurements. Total length, 1,480; tail, 795. No skull. Ex type 
Berlin Museum. 
