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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
have been sent from Kordofan to the Zoological Society of Frankfort in 1861, in whose 
gardens it had lived; but it is extremely doubtful that it ever came from that locality. 
The nose is deep black, so that if the locality were correct it would establish the 
eastern extension of the Western form to near the banks of the Nile. Another young 
stulfed female in the same Collection, professing to have been obtained in Nubia in 
1892, has the nose covered with white and black hairs, but below the nose white is 
the prevailing colour, whilst a female from Senegambia has the nose deep black. 
Paris Museum. 
Here I saw a fine skin of a male Patas from Kaloum, in the French Sudan, where 
it had been obtained by Dr. Maclaud. The whole upper surface, including the outside 
of the thighs and upper surface of the tail, was deep rusty orange-red. The front of the 
shoulder was nearly black, but mixed with greyish. Hairs on cheeks white, but with 
black hairs intermixed. Frontal band, line along bridge of nose, and nose black. Face 
whitish. Radial portion of fore limbs and tibial portion of hind limbs, with hands 
and feet, white. The brilliancy of the colouring of this animal was very striking. 
According to Hartmann i, C. pyrrhonotus lives in small troops in the thick forest and 
among the dense bush which covers extensive areas in the region of its distribution. 
At Sennaar, this bush is made up of Acacia mellifera, A. fistula, A. fcrruginea, 
A. campylacantha, Tamarindus indicus, Comhretum hartmannianum, Zizyphus spina- 
christi. Ficus 'popuUfolia, and Grewia populifoUa, so that these monkeys have a 
plentiful supply of the fruits to which they are partial. 
Ehrenberg, in his exhaustive account of C. pyrrhonotus, states that it was known 
in Egypt as the ‘Nisnas’^, a term first mentioned by Forskal. In the 
provinces of the Upper Nile and in Lower Egypt it is called Abu-Lang 
el achmar ’; and in Kordofan, according to Ruppell, its native name is ‘ Nango.’ 
Hartmann gives, on the authority of Barth’s ‘ Central African Vocabulary,’ a number 
of names that are applied to it. 
The monkey first mentioned by Heuglin ^ in his “ Fauna of the Red Sea and the 
Somali Coast,” under the name of C. poliophceus, has been regarded by some authors 
as identical with C. pyrrhonotus, but too little is known at present to admit of a 
satisfactory conclusion being arrived at. It has been described by Fitzinger from a 
four-year-old male from Fazoql, and from one about a year old, said to have been 
obtained on the Bahr-el-Abiad. These specimens, to his mind, left no doubt as to the 
validity of C. poliophmus. 
1 Zeitschr. Ges. Erdk. Berlin, iii. 1868, p. 34. 
2 Eiippell in his ‘ Neue Wirbelth.’ pp. 7-8, mentions Cxjmcephalus hahuin (misspelt hahouin) as occurring 
in the desert near Ambukol, and adds that it was known in Egypt as the ‘ Nisnas.’ 
3 Petermanu’s Mittheil. 1861, p. 13. 
