Chapter XXIV: Boutourlini's Guenon. Cercopithecus Boutourlinii

(_Plate XXIX._)

_Cercopithecus boutourlinii_, Giglioli, Zool. Anz., x., p. 510 (1887);
Scl., P. Z. S., 1893, pp. 256, 441.

_Cercopithecus albigularis_, Giglioli, Ann. Mus. Genov. (2), vi., p. 8
(1888).

CHARACTERS.--MALE.--Body-hairs long and rough; upper surface black, with pale fulvous annellations, except on a line between the shoulders, which is nearly black; ears nearly nude, with an inner hairy pencil; nose, upper lip, chin, and throat, pure white; rest of the under surface and of the limbs and tail black, {70}except the base of the tail, which has ringed hairs like the back all round. Length of body, 21 inches; of tail, 24 inches. (_Sclater._)

FEMALE.--Nearly similar, but smaller, and having the hairs less ringed on the back and the head. (_Sclater._)

Distinguished from _C. albigularis_ by its white nose and upper lips, black under surface, and blacker limbs.

DISTRIBUTION.--North-east Africa: Kaffa, a province to the south of Shoa; and Gimma, a province in Central Abyssinia, to the south of Gojan.