ECONOMIC USE OF COLOBUS 
genus, viz. Colobus. This genus of monkeys has the 
same absence of cheek pouches, and the same sacculated 
stomach, but it has nearly lost the thumb, which gives 
it a certain likeness to some monkeys of the New World ; 
this likeness is a trifle increased by the rather broader 
nostrils shown in these monkeys, a broadness which 
suggests the Platyrrhine type rather than the Old 
World Catarrhine. Nevertheless, in all other particulars 
the Colobi or Guerezas do not approach the monkeys of 
America, but clearly range themselves alongside of the 
Oriental Holy Apes. It is an odd coincidence, in view 
of this now unquestioned affinity, that in Nigeria Colobus 
guereza is known to the natives by the name of ‘‘Maclam.”’ 
The coincidence lies in the fact that this word means 
also a Mohammedan priest in the Haussa language. 
The idea of sanctity thus attaches itself to Colobus as 
well as to its near relative Semnopithecus. The black 
and white excessively long-haired skin of more than one 
species of Colobus is largely used for ornament, not 
merely in its native Africa by a warrior, but by peaceful 
persons in this country ; those long and coarse-haired 
black muffs are, or used to be, the product of the skin 
of this monkey. There is a legend to the effect that the 
Colobus, when wounded, knowing full well the value of 
its skin, deliberately tears it with its teeth, so that it 
shall not come into the possession of its slayer. These 
apes, like the Holy Apes, go up high upon mountains in 
Africa ; and a species from Ruwenzori has the peculi- 
arity of having longer hair than any other species, a 
peculiarity which is possibly correlated with its Alpine 
existence. It is said that the bright black and white 
hues of Colobus do not invariably, as might be expected, 
render the monkey a conspicuous object, since hopping 
from branch to branch the contrast of colours is in 
harmony with dark tree trunks garlanded with white 
and grey lichens. It is not very often that members 
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