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Show 1893.] MONKEYS OF THE GENUS CERCOPITHECUS. 251 is not uncommon in captivity; we have had some 25 specimens it since 1860. 19. CERCOPITHECUS ALBIGULARIS. Semnopithecus? albogidaris, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 106. Cercopithecus albogidaris, Sykes, P. Z.S. 1832, p. 18; Martin, M. An. p. 512; Fraser, Zool. Typ. pi. ii. (1848); Wagn. Siiug. Suppl. v. p. 45 (1855); Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 182; id. Cat. Monk. B. M. p. 24 (1870) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. vii. p. 79 (1876); Sci. List Vert. (1883) p. 9 ; True, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 448 (Kilimanjaro). Hab. East Africa, Kilimanjaro (Abbott): Gold Coast (Pel). Sykes's Monkey, as this species is commonly called, is also frequently brought alive to this country. W e have had some 25 specimens in the Menagerie during the past thirty years. It belongs to the Mona group, but has no white thigh-patches, and the rump is more or less rufous. Sehlegel gives the locality of this species as Gold Coast (Pel); but it appears certainly to occur in East Africa, and it would be desirable that specimens from these countries should be compared. 20. CERCOPITHECUS CAMPBELLI. Cercopithecus campbelli, Waterh. P. Z. S. 1838, p. 61 ; Fraser, Zool. Typ. pl.-iii. (1848); Martin, M. An. p. 544; Wagn. Siiug. Suppl. v. p. 47 (1855); Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 182; id. Cat. Monk. B. M. p. 24 (1870); Schleg. Mus. P.-B. vii. p. 81 (1876) ; Sci. List Vert. (1883) p. 11; Jent. Notes L. M. x. p. 9 (Liberia). Cercopithecus bumetti, Gray, Ann. N. H. x. p. 256 (1842). Hab. West Africa: Gold Coast (Pel); Liberia (Biittik.), common. Campbell's Monkey is by no means so common in captivity as the two preceding species. W e have had, so far as our modern registers go, only eight examples of it. It is easily distinguishable from C. albogularis by the black rump and outer surface of the thighs. It has a frontal band like the Mona, but tinged with rufous. 21. CERCOPITHECUS SAMANGO. Cercopithecus samango, Sundev. Ofvers. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. i. p. 160 (1844) ; Wagn. Siiug. v. p. 44 (1855); Peters, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 400 (Angola); id. Reise n. Moss., Saug. p. 4 (Inhambane); Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 182; id. Cat. Monk. B. M . p. 24 (1870); Schleg. Mus. P.-B. vii. p. 79 (1876); Sci. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 564. Hab. Natal (Wahlberg); Mozambique (Peters); Angola (Wel-ivitsch). A single example of this scarce Monkey was acquired by the Society in 1888 (see P. Z. S. I. s. c). It died June 4th, 1890. I now exhibit its skin. Sehlegel has united to this species C. labiatus, Geoffr., but I can see no traces of the white lips in our specimen, and a m doubtful about the identification. |