Chapter IX: Schmidt's Guenon. Cercopithecus Schmidti

_Cercopithecus ascanias_ (?), Scl., P. Z. S., 1887, p. 502.

_Cercopithecus schmidti_, Matschie, Zool. Anz., p. 161 (1892); Sclater,
P. Z. S., 1893, p. 245, pl. xvi.

CHARACTERS.--Closely allied to _C. melanogenys_, the white nose-spot cordate. Face and superciliary region blue; nose above the white spot black; a bar between the nose-spot, reaching to the whiskers, on each side, black; upper and lower lips flesh-coloured; whiskers white, conspicuous, and with a very narrow black streak on their lower edge; beard white; above the superciliary region, and between the flesh-coloured ears, a black frontal bar; top of head, back, outer aspect of arms, thighs, and of the basal third of tail, olive-green and more {51}punctulated than in _C. melanogenys_; throat, under side of body, and inner side of the upper part of the limbs, white; fore-arms, hands, legs, and feet black; posterior two-thirds of tail rufous.

DISTRIBUTION.--This species was obtained by the Rev. W. C. Willoughby, in 1883, at Uniamwezi, in Eastern Equatorial Africa, and was said to have been brought thither from the Manyuema country, on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika. His specimen lived in the Zoological Gardens in London for nearly three years. It has also been obtained in Uganda, further to the north.