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'J’EAVELS IN CENTRAL AFRICA. 
consequent on its having no thumb on the fore-feet. The measure- 
ments of an adult male are two feet six inehes from the tip of the 
nose to the base of the tail^ and the latter member of exactly the 
same lengthy exelusive of a tuft of beautiful long hair at the end^ 
whieh in itself is three inehes long. The height from the sole of 
the foot to the top of the shoulder is one foot eight inehes. The 
faee and ears of the animal may be termed a dirty blaek^ while,, 
commencing from the top of the forehead, the baek of the head^ 
neck,, and the whole of the back are jet-blaek. The breast^ belly^ 
extremities, and tail (all but the tip) partake of the same colour. 
The coat is neither short nor long, but very glossy. The eolour of 
the ehin, under-jaw, cheeks, and the lower part of the neek up to 
the ears, forming a stripe between the top of the head and fore- 
head, is pure Avhite. Commeneing from the shoulders, extending 
along the sides and over the loins, is a beautiful thick fringe of long 
white hair, and as fine in appearanee as floss silk. The tip of the 
tail is also tufted white. The animal seems to court the neighbour- 
hood of water, and is met with in small families of from ten to 
twenty; is not vieious, but rather shy, and does not make the usual 
chattering noise so frequent among other monkey tribes. But for 
the very long tail, he much resembles a setter dog ; in his movements 
he is most aetive, and we have seen him make surprising bounds 
from tree to tree or from branches elevated at some thirty or forty 
feet to the ground without apparent inconvenience. His food con- 
sists of wild fruits and seeds. The male is somewhat larger in size 
than the female, his coat more glossy, and his silver fringe more 
ornamental. Several females were accompanied by a young one 
about the size of a full-grown kitten. One of these we were most 
anxious to obtain alive ; but in spite of Petherick^s attempts to shoot 
a female and catch the young one, they proved so exceedingly shy 
