PAPIX) CTN0CEPHALI7S. 
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long hairs, averaging from 200 to 400 mm. in length ; long straggling hairs on the 
sides of the body. Hairs on lumbar and sacral regions comparatively short, contrasted 
with those on the shoulders; the hairs on the fore limbs much shorter than those on 
the outside of the hind limbs. 
General colour yellow, olive-yellow, or olive-brownish, much more vivid on the 
hinder quarters, but more especially on the outsides of the hind limbs and, in some 
specimens, on the vertex. Front of shoulder generally more or less speckled with 
blackish, also the hairs on the front of the fore limb and on the lower part of the 
hind limb; and, occasionally, the black tips are so marked on the upper surfaces of 
the hands and feet that those parts are blackish; these black-tipped hairs, most 
marked on the foregoing parts, sometimes occur on the top of the head. Hairs on 
cheeks (whiskers) yellowish grey or pale yellowish white, similar or nearly so on the 
throat; chest with annulated hairs more or less well marked. Belly pale yellowish 
white or silvery white. Inner sides of limbs yellowish, the hairs without annulations. 
Colour of tail uniform with the tints of the body, sometimes rather brilliant yellow at 
the base. The hairs are annulated dark brown or blackish and yellowish; the apical 
portion black, except on the pectoral region, where it is pale yellow or nearly white, 
succeeded in the former case by alternate bands of yellow and brownish or blackish, 
and in the latter instance by dark and yellowish bands. Bands of colour most numerous 
on the shoulder, occasionally fourteen, but variable, sometimes feebly indicated beyond 
the second to the fifth band, owing to their merging into one another. Generally 
three bands on the hairs of the forehead; hairs on pectoral region with two to twelve 
bands; those on sacral region and outside of thighs with three or four bands. The 
bands are most clearly indicated in individuals from Lamu and its neighbourhood, but 
in others they are very obscure and are only discernible by allowing the light to play 
on individual hairs. 
Approximate measurements of adult <s 
mm. 
Snout to vent.710 
Vent to tip of tail ..580 
Height at shoulder.560 
The skull of this species is characlerized by a shorter muzzle than the skull of 
P. anuhis^ so that it has altogether a shorter and at the same time broader character 
without a frontal depression behind the superciliary ridge. The series of skulls 
1 [The animal represented on Plate IX., figured from life, had been for about 15 years in the Cologne 
Gardens. A life of captivity, with increasing age and lack of exercise, has a tendency to give the animal 
a heavier build, with a shortening and thickening of the limbs. It has been observed also with regard to 
the skulls of menagerie specimens that they show marked differences when compared with those of freshly- 
killed wild animals.] 
