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roloway
Also rolloway.
[a. the specific name of Simia roloway (J. C. D. von Schreber Säugthiere (1774) I. 186), prob. f. the animal's native name in Ghana.]
A large black and white guenon, Cercopithecus diana roloway, found in parts of tropical West Africa and distinguished from the Diana monkey by a longer, white beard. Also attrib.
1781Pennant Hist. Quadrup. I. 185 M[onkey] with a triangular black face, bordered all round with white hairs... Inhabits Guinea; is called there Roloway. 1792Kerr Anim. Kingd. 72 Palatine, or roloway... A gentle animal. 1894R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. I. iv. 102 The real name of the diana monkey in its native districts is said to be Roloway on the Gold Coast. 1910W. P. Westell Bk. Animal Kingdom: Mammals ix. 163 The Roloway Monkey is often mistaken for the handsome Diana, to which it is very similar. 1966W. C. O. Hill Primates VI. 531 This form has been much confused with the preceding; many authors..having treated the Roloway as the Diana. 1966R. & D. Morris Men & Apes viii. 234 Diana and rolloway monkeys have been considerably reduced in numbers. |