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BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA 
APPENDIX I. 
LIST OF MAMMALS RECORDED IN BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA 
Note.— This list is principally based on the work of Mr. Oldfield Thomas, of the Mammalian Depart¬ 
ment at the British Museum of Natural History. This work is summed up in Mr. Thomas’s paper in the 
Zoological Society's Proceedings for April, 1897. The arrangement of the species, however, is my 
own. In order to make the list complete I have also inserted between brackets species known to be 
present in British Central Africa, though not represented by specimens sent to the British Museum or 
Zoological Gardens. Where the species was new to science and made known through our collections, 
sp. nov. is placed after the name. 
Order, Primates. 
(Homo sapiens , sub-species ccthiops ; Bantu negroes.] 
Papio babuin ; the Yellow Baboon. 
Represented by live animal in Zoological Gardens. 
Papio pruinosus (sp. nov.); the Grey Baboon. 
Discovered by Dr. Percy Rendall at the south end of Lake Nyasa. A remark¬ 
able new species with fur of a hoary grey and dirty white colour, nearly allied to 
Papio thorn of North-East Africa. 
Cercocebus aterrimus ; the Black Mangabey. 
Living specimen obtained by me from Lake Tanganyika and presented to 
Zoological Gardens. Its actual habitat on the shores of Lake Tanganyika was 
uncertain. It was given to me by an Arab of Ujiji—said to come from N. Tangan¬ 
yika ; scarcely to be included in a list of British Central African mammals except 
that natives state the animal is also found in South Tanganyika and on the Luapula 
River : a regular West African type. 
Cercopithecus opisthosticlus (sp. nov). 
Discovered by Mr. Richard Crawshay in the Lake Mweru district : allied to 
C. samango of South Africa (vide P.Z.S. of November 21, 1893). 
Cercopithecus albigularis ; the white-throated grivet Monkey from the Shire province, 
but probably spread throughout British Central Africa. 
Cercopithecus moloneyi ; Moloney’s monkey. 
[1 Cercopithecus pygerythrus ]; the russet-rumped grivet Monkey. 
Probably this is the common species of grivet so often seen as pets in European 
settlements. 
Cercopithecus stair si ; Stairs’s monkey (P.Z.S. 1892, p. 580). 
Colobuspalliatus ; the white-thighed Colobus Monkey. 
Found abundantly in the forested mountain regions to the west and north-west 
of Lake Nyasa and thence westward to the Congo Free State. This species is also, 
I believe, found on high mountains in East Africa; otherwise its affinities are 
mainly West African. 
Otogale kirki ; the Great Galago. 
This lemuroid has hitherto only been met with in the Shire province. 
Galago moholi. 
