MONA MONKEY

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MONA MONKEY , a West

African

AFRICAN

representative of the

group

GROUP

of monkeys generally known as guenons, and scientifically as Cercopithecus. The mona (C. mona) typifies a sub-genus of the same name (Mona) characterized, among other features, by the presence of a black band running from the

angle

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form,
angus
- ANGUS, EARLS OF
, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

of each eye to the ear. In the mona itself the general colour of the upper parts is black, with a pair of

oval

OVAL (Lat. ovum, egg)

white

spots near the root of the tail, while a band across the forehead and the whole under surface are likewise

white

. (See PRIMATES )

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