On an Alleged New Monkey from the Cameroons

Abstract

IN NATURE for October 26, 1905, Dr. H. O. Forbes described, as representing a new species, a monkey (Guenon) from the Cameroons, which he named Cercopithecus crossi in compliment to Mr. Cross, of Liverpool, to whom it belonged. The description tallied so closely with that of C. preussi, based by Matschie in 1898 upon specimens also from the Cameroons, that I strongly suspected the two species would prove to be identical. That this is the case I have now no hesitation in affirming after examining the type of C. crossi, which Mr. Cross has sent to the Zoological Gardens in London.