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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
his day was remarkable for its numerous fine dhum-palms, but he does not mention the 
presence of monkeys. However, while at Berber he received from the Governor the 
present of a little grey monkey, and he observed what appears to have been this 
species on the small beautifully wooded islands which occur on the Nile to the south 
of the Atbara. 
Is. Geofifoy St.-Hilaire has recorded specimens from the banks ot the White Nile, 
whence they were obtained by dhYrnand and Salatiu in 1843. 
Kotschy 1, in his sketch of the banks of the White Nile, mentions the occurrence of 
numerous troops of Cerco])ithecus griseoviridis on the west bank not far to the south 
of Khartum. 
Fitzinger^, in his account of the Mammals collected by Heuglin in North-east 
Africa, confirms the statement regarding the occurrence of this species between 
Ambukol and Abu Hamed and on the large island of Moqrat, on the authority of the 
natives in Heuglin’s employment. 
Hartmann3, in 1868, also confirmed the existence of this species along the bend of 
the Nile to the north of Bayuda in the districts of Har Robatat (Moqrat Island) and 
Bar Monasir (Ambukol), along the Atbara and the Blue Nile south to 14° N. lat., and 
also in Kordofan; but as he extended its distribution to Senegambia, it would seem 
that he did not clearly distinguish it from C. culhtTichus, an opinion in favour of which 
a good deal may be said. 
Schweinfurth 4 observed it above Kowa (Koweh), about 200 Idioms, south from 
Khartum. 
[In the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London ’ for 1900, p. 952, giving 
an account of a recent visit to the White Nile, Capt. Stanley S. Flower says “The 
Grivet Monkey was noted on the 14th and 15th of March at Abu Zeit, and on the 
19th of March near Renk; each time in small parties of five or six individuals, 
sometimes walking on the ground, sometimes in trees. We saw no other species 
of monkey along the White Nile.” No specimens of these monkeys were 
obtained.—W. E. db W.] 
This species is distributed over the Nile Valley southwards from the bend of the river 
beyond Hongola and Abu Hamed. To the west of the Nile it is said to occur as far as 
Har-Fur, and to the east it ranges to the shores of the Red Sea and of the Indian 
Ocean. Its wide distribution over Abyssinia has been alluded to by many travellers, 
and it has been recorded from elevations as high as 7500 feet near Dildi 5. 
It is generally found in troops among the high trees of the wooded parts of the 
1 Mittheil. k. k. geogr. Ges. Wien, 1858, Abhandl. p. 80. 
2 SB. Ak. Wissensch. Wien, Band liv^ i. 1866, p. 539. 
3 Zeitschr. Ges. Erdk. Berlin, iii. 1868, p. 33. 
5 Geol. & Zool. cf Abyss. (Blanford), 1870, p. 224. 
^ Heart of Africa, i. 1873, p. 61. 
