colobus

[Gr. kolo bos docked, stunted, curtal; of animals, short horned, short-eared, maimed, mutilated, from Gr. kolos docked, stunted.] Zool.: A genus of monkeys, family Simiade. The facial angle is from 40° to 45°, the muzzle short, the face naked, with cheek pouches, the anterior hands aro destitute of a thumb, and callosities are on the buttocks. The species inhabit the forests of Sierra Leone and other parts of Western Africa. Colobus polycomos is called by the natives the king of the monkeys owing to the beauty of its colors, it having a jet-black body with a white tail, a brown face and a yellow and black hood or pelerine.