_Colobus rufomitratus_, Peters, M. B. Akad. Berl., 1879, p. 829, pl. iA.
and ii.
_Tropicolobus rufomitratus_, Rochebr., Faun. Sénég., Mamm., Suppl., p.
102 (1887).
CHARACTERS.--Body thick-set and covered with short hair; face {89}and ears
naked and brownish-black, the long superciliary hairs and the transverse
crest, from ear to ear, black; front and back of the head to the nape of
the neck brownish-red; cheeks and chin dark grey; back, from the nape of
the neck, flanks, outer and hinder surfaces of the limbs, and the feet,
dark brownish-olive; front of the shoulder, of the arm and part of the
fore-arm, and the front of the thighs, pale reddish-yellow; breast, under
side of the body and inner side of the limbs, of the same colour, but
paler; tail coloured like the back, the tip tufted, brownish-black. Length
of body, 26¾ inches; tail, 27¾.
DISTRIBUTION.--This very rare species lives in East Africa. Forests at
Muniuni, near Mombasa.