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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1913 Excerpt: ... rest of upper parts of body tawny, with rather indistinct black speckling, tawny being the prevailing hue; flanks paler, a rather bright ochraceous of uniform hue, no annulations; arms on outer side above elbow mixed gray and cream buff, forearms pale gray with black annulations; outer side of legs gray, with tawny hairs mixed near hips and with black annulations; sides of head and whiskers, (which are directed backwards covering ears), throat, inner side of arms and legs pinkish buff; abdomen and anal region cream buff; tail above tawny and black like back, growing darker and merging into black on apical portion; beneath, a rufous patch at root, then ochraceous grading into tawny at tip; hands and feet black. Ex type British Museum. Measurements. Skull: total length, 92.2; occipito-nasal length, 81.8; intertemporal width, 44.7; Hensel, 65; zygomatic width, 67.6; breadth of braincase, 53.8; median length of nasals, 16.4; palatal length, 30.9; length of upper molar series, 22.6; length of upper canines, 16; length of mandible, 68.2; length of lower molar series, 30. Ex type British Museum. The general appearance of this species is that of a reddish monkey quite different in coloring from its paler relatives of the L. Centralis style. It is nearer to the animal from Portuguese East Africa, which has been accepted as representing L. Rufoviridis, but differs from that species in its pinkish buff whiskers, throat and general color of the under parts, and in its jet black hands and feet. A number of specimens from Fort Hall are in the British Museum. Unfortunately there are no skulls of the L. c. johnstoni specimens, so I can make no comparison with them and that of the present species. Lasiopyga Callida (Hollister). Lasiopyga pygerythra callida Hollister, Smiths...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235766586
- ISBN 13 9781235766589
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages152
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