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Show :106 ~BXUAL f:iELEC'J'IOJ.: ; :;\T Al\D[ALS. I'Ait'l'll. appeamn •o nnd diRappcarnnce of stripes ; tho speci~s of Asinus which inhauit the Asiatic continent are destitute of stripes, not having even tho cross shonlde.r-stripo, whilst those whi ·h inbauit Africa are conspwuously striped, with tho partial exception of A. tl)3niozn~s, which has only the cross hould 'r-stripe and generally some faint Lars on the lea ; and this species inhabits the almost b A · · 43 intermediate region of Upper Egypt and byss1ma. Q•tbaclrumana.-Bcfore we conclude, it will be advisable to ad<l a few remarks to those already given on tho i'i ~. ,0, Head ul' ,'~muupillll·LU> t uu:cuudus. 'l'ltL; and LhP fullowir,g flgures (from l'rof. Gervais) nre.given_to shew the odd armngcment nnd development of the lmlr on the head. 43 'Proc. Zool. , oc.' 1802, p. 101. 1-'cc, also, Dl'. Hartmann, ·Ann. J. Landw.' Bel. xliii. H. 222. r( 'II AI'. X\' Ill. 307 oma~ental characters of monkeys. In most of the ~pecws the sexes resemble each other in colour, but 111 some, as we have seen, the males differ from the female~, o~pecially in the colour of the naked parts of the skm, m the development of the beard, whiskers ancl mane. lVrany species are colonrea either in so ox~ t.),UADUUl\IANA. !•'ig. 7J. Head of Semnopithccus comnlus. Fig. 72. Head of Cobus cnpucinus. Fig. 73. llend of Atelcs mnrginntus. Fig. 7 4 • Head or Cebus vcllerosus. ti~aordinary or. beautiful a manner, and are furnished WJth such cunous and elegant crests of hair that can ha rd .l y avm'cl lo oln· ng at those characters a's haviwnge been . gamed for the sake of ornament· 1he accom-panymg figures (figs. 70 to 74) serve to shew the X 2 |
