CEECOPITHECUS PTEKHOJ^-OTUS. 
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[The monkey described by Ehrenberg as C. pyrrhonotus had a white nose, the 
remainder of the face being black. From the above given notes on the more important 
specimens in the Continental Museums, it Avill be seen that some examples attributed 
to the Nile region have black noses. Up to the present time, scarcely a single wild- 
killed specimen of this monkey from the Nile Valley has reached the European 
Museums, so nothing is known as to the distribution of the ditferent forms. But there 
is little doubt that an entirely black-nosed form exists in the upper valley of the White 
Nile, and this would represent C. poliophmis, Heuglin ; but to wFat extent the Nile 
Valley form differs from the West-African C. patas has yet to be determined. This 
monkey extends into East Africa as far as the Mau Escarpment.—W. E. de W.] 
Before the Red Monkey of the Nile Valley had been prominently brought to the 
front by Ehrenberg, the k^ttoc of the Greeks had been identified, by Buffon, LinntEus, 
and others, with some East-African monkeys, while, on the other hand, Schreber had 
been the first to suggest that the red Senegal monkey corresponded to it. How 
correct his supposition was is substantiated by the extremely close affinity of the 
eastern and western red monkeys. 
Belon in speaking of the different kinds of monkeys that were trained in his 
day by the natives to perform in public, said there was one “ desquels est celuy que 
Pline, pour la grand beaute de ses cheueux et de son poll, a nomme Callitriches. II 
est totalement iauln comme hi d’or, et est du genre des Cercopitheces, qu’Aristote 
nomme Cebus, car il a la queue longue comme ont les Guenons.” This was in all 
probability C. pyrrhonotus. 
A. little more than a century later (1698) Narvarche de la Brue^ discovered in the 
forests of Senegal a red monkey, known as ‘ Patas ’ to the natives. This Cercopithecus 
was fully described by Buffon ^ under the name of “ Patas a bandeau noir, et Patas a 
bandeau blanc.” The name properly applicable to the Senegal monkey is C. patas 
(Schreber). 
A careful consideration of the ten kinds of monkeys mentioned by Prospero Alpini ^ 
in his work on Egypt sanctions the conclusion that they were not all of African 
origin. For example, the fact that one of them bore the name ‘ Karander ’ suggests that 
it was a Southern Indian monkey, as the Tamil name for a monkey is ‘ Kurangu.’ 
He had kept in confinement in Cairo for two years a monkey which he designated 
Siinius callitrix, and described it as having been about the size of a large cat, and 
like one in form. Its body was somewhat long, the head was small and round, and 
1 Les Observ. de plus singul. et Choses mem. 1554, p. 120/2. 
2 Hist. Gen. des Voy. ii. 1698, p. 321. 
3 Hist. Nat. xiv. 1766, pp. 212-223. 
^ Eerum Algypt. lib. iv. 1735, p. 244, pi. xx. fig. 4. 
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