RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1869.02.23. Moustache Monkey. CUL-DAR83.13. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 308.
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Feb. 23 1869 Z. G. Moustache monkey. Whole face coloured in most diversified manner & highly ornamented - upper lip pale blue; with lower part clothed with slight quite black moustache.
Whiskers orange with upper part black extending towards Ears - chin & round eye pale-coloured, but with blackish shade beneath eyes: rest of skin of face & nose pale bluish greyish.
Ears whitish - general form mottled greenish.
Cercocebus æthiops large white eyelid giving a very odd appearance to black face - white whiskers - chesnut head.
Cercopithecus petaurista white beard.
Cynopithicus niger, intensely black, with great helmet-like crest of black hair on crown of Head.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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