Chapter XXXI: Schlegel's Guenon. Cercopithecus Neglectus
_Cercopithecus leucocampyx_ (nec Fischer), Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus.,
p. 22 (1870).
_Cercopithecus neglectus_, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 70 (1876);
Giglioli, Zool. Anz., x., p. 510 (1887); Scl., P. Z. S., 1893, p. 253.
CHARACTERS.--General colour greyish-brown, finely grizzled; under side of body black; crown, outside of limbs and base of tail black; anterior aspect of thighs and a band across the haunches white.
Distinguished from the true _C. leucampyx_ by the colour of the front of the thighs, and by its banded haunch.
_Distribution._--The White Nile, where it was obtained by Consul Petherick.
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A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 2 (of 2)Chapter XXXI: Schlegel's Guenon. Cercopithecus Neglectus
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