[Illustration: ERXLEBEN'S GUENON.]
{77}XXXIII. ERXLEBEN'S GUENON. CERCOPITHECUS GRAYI.
_Cercopithecus grayi_, Fraser, Cat. Knowsl. Coll., p. 8 (1850); Gray, P.
Z. S., 1868, p. 182; id., Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 22 (1870); Sclater,
P. Z. S., 1893, p. 256.
_Cercopithecus erxlebenii_, Dahlb. et Puch., Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1856,
p. 96; 1857, p. 196; Dahlb., Zool. Stud., p. 109, pl. 5 (1856); Gray, P.
Z. S., 1868, p. 182; id., Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 23 (1870; in part);
Sclater, P. Z. S., 1871, p. 36; 1893, p. 254; 1894, p. 484.
_Cercopithecus pogonias_, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 82 (part).
(_Plate XXX._)
CHARACTERS.--Face and ears naked, flesh-coloured; whiskers commencing under
the eyes, bushy, yellow; the ears with a rufous or yellow tuft internally;
head yellow, but interrupted by three broad black streaks, extending from
above each eye and from the nose to the back of the head; back, anterior
aspect of the thighs, and the sides yellowish rufous, darker towards the
lower back--the hairs ringed with black and yellow, upper surface and
entire terminal third of the tail black. Under surface of the body, inner
side of the limbs, anterior aspect of the thighs and legs, and the under
side of the basal two-thirds of the tail, yellow or rufous yellow; region
of the anus white; external aspect of the fore-limbs black; the hands and
feet black.
A female specimen of this species which lived for some years in the
menagerie of Lord Derby at Knowsley, and died in 1836, is now in the Derby
Museum, Liverpool. It is the type of _C. grayi_, with which _C. erxlebeni_
is identical.
DISTRIBUTION.--West Africa: River Congo.
{78}XXXIV. THE BEARDED GUENON. CERCOPITHECUS POGONIAS.
_Cercopithecus pogonias_, Bennett, P. Z. S., 1833, p. 67; Wagner in
Schreber Säugeth. Suppl., v., p. 43 (1855); Lesson, Spec. Mamm., p. 74
(1840); Martin, Mammif. An., p. 543 (1841); Gray, P. Z. S., 1868, p. 182;
id., Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 23 (1870); Sclater, P. Z. S., 1893, p.
254; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 82 (1876).
CHARACTERS.--Similar to _C. grayi_, but differs in the yellow forehead
being interrupted in the middle by only a few black hairs, and not by a
streak; the whiskers paler; the back part of the head, the fore part of the
back, and the sides grizzled, the hairs being black, ringed with white;
while down the middle of the back to the base of the tail runs a broad
black stripe.
DISTRIBUTION.--Fernando Po.