Chapter VI: The Ursine Guereza. Colobus Ursinus

_? Full-bottom Monkey_, Pennant, Quad., i., p. 197, pl. 24 (1781).

_? Colobus polycomus_, Illig., Prodr., p. 69 (1811).

{94}_Colobus ursinus_, Ogilby, P. Z. S., 1835, p. 98; Less. Spec. Mamm.,
p. 70 (1840); Martin, Mammif. Anim., p. 495 (1841); Fraser, Zool. Typ.,
pl. i. (1849); Is. Geoffr., Dict. H. N., iv., p. 208 (1849); Sclater, P.
Z. S., 1860, p. 245; Reichenb. Naturg. Affen, p. 86 (1862); Schl., Mus.
Pays-Bas, vii., p. 24 (1876).

_Colobus personatus_, Temm., Mus. Lugd., _fide_ Reichenb. _t.c._, p. 88
(1862).

_Colobus polycomus_, var., Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 18 (1870);
Rochebr., Faun. Sénég., Suppl. Mamm., p. 117, pl. viii. (1887), Matschie
S.B. Ges. Natur. Fr. Berlin, 1892, p. 227.

_Guereza ursinus_, Trouess., Consp. Mamm., p. 10 (1879).

CHARACTERS.--Body large; fur long and glossy; face and ears naked and black; fur on neck, shoulders, and along the back forming a mantle; fur over the whole of the body and limbs deep black; front and back of head, auricular region, sides of the neck and throat, greyish-white, mingled with greyish-black; the tail long, short-haired, white at the extremity.

YOUNG.--White, with a few scattered black hairs; tail well tufted.

DISTRIBUTION.--West Africa: Sierra Leone.

N. B.--Sinoe is the most easterly region whence skins come to the coast.

HABITS.--This species is often found alone, not in large troops. It is more rare in collections than _C. ferrugineus_.