RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1868.03.16. The Diana monkeys very pretty. CUL-DAR83.2. 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 information in Descent 2: 291.
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Z. Gardens March 16/68/ The Diana monkeys very pretty - long pointed beard white with & basal part black - crest over eye transverse white.
[Curious] monkeys with white spot of short hair on nose - Many Cercopithecus petaurista & nictitans both have it.
[Chinese] Macacus (M. lasiotus)
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with 2 red spots on cheeks.
Cercopithecus cephus. (Martin Nat Hist) "face violet - blue upper lip with a white triangular mask above a black margin."
[William Charles Linnaeus Martin. 1841. A general introduction to the natural history of mammiferous animals. London, p. 293.]
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