A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 2 (of 2)Forbes, Henry O. (Henry Ogg)
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A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 2 (of 2)
Forbes, Henry O. (Henry Ogg)
Primates
DISTRIBUTION.--North-east Africa: Kordofan and Darfur, to a height of 3,000
feet above the sea. A specimen living in the Zoological Gardens in 1882 was
stated to have come from Somali-land.
Allied to the Patas and the Nisnas is Peters' Guenon (_Cercopithecus
ochraceus_, Peters, Reis. Mossamb. Säugeth., p. 2, pl. 1a), from Querimba,
Mozambique, which has the upper side yellowish, and is probably but a
variety of _C. pyrrhonotus_.
XXI. THE REDDISH-GREEN GUENON. CERCOPITHECUS RUFO-VIRIDIS.
_Cercopithecus rufo-viridis_, Geoffr., C. R., xv., p. 1038 (1842); id.
Dict. Hist. Nat., iii., p. 307 (1849); Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 78
(1876); Scl., P. Z. S., 1893, p. 258.
_Chlorocebus rufo-viridis_, Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 25 (1870).
_? Cercopithecus flavidus_, Peters, Reis. Mossamb., p. 3, pl. i.b.
CHARACTERS.--Face black; a large frontal band white; head above
olive-green; back green washed with rufous, gradually becoming bright
rufous, slightly speckled with black on the sides {66}of the body between
the fore- and hind-limbs; shoulders and thighs grey, washed with green; the
rest of the external aspect of the limbs grey; under side of body and inner
side of limbs white; hands speckled black; the feet greyish; tail, dark
grey above, pale grey below.
DISTRIBUTION AND HABITS.--Unknown. The form described by Peters as _C.
flavidus_ comes from Mozambique.
IV. CERCOPITHECI MELANOCHIRI.
The species which we now proceed to describe belong to Prof. Schlegel's
Section v., and Dr. Sclater's _Cercopitheci melanochiri_, of which the
members have the arms and legs either black or dark grey, and have a black
band from the outer corner of the eyes to the ears.
XXII. THE MONA GUENON. CERCOPITHECUS MONA.
_Simia mona_, Schreber, Säugeth., i., p. 97, pl. xv. (1775).
_Cercopithecus mona_, Erxleb. Syst. Regne An., p. 32 (1777); Geoffr.,
Dict. Hist. Nat., p. 304 (1849); Martin, Mammif. An., p. 527 (1841);
Wagner, in Schreb. Säugeth. Suppl., v., p. 47 (1855); Gray, Cat. Monkeys
Brit. Mus., p. 22 (1870); Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 80 (1876);
Sclater, P. Z. S., 1893, p. 250.
_La mone_, F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm., i., livr. ix. (Août, 1819).
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