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Sykes|saɪks|
The name of William Henry Sykes (1790–1872), English soldier and naturalist, used in the possessive in Sykes'(s) monkey, to designate Cercopithecus albogularis, a blue-grey guenon native to East Africa.
[1831Proc. Zool. Soc. 105 Major Sykes subsequently called the attention of the Committee to a Monkey presented by him to the Society.] 1864Ibid. 709 Sykes's Monkey. 1905[see monkey n. 1 b]. 1914R. C. F. Maugham Wild Game in Zambezia xi. 252 Sykes' Monkey is a comparative rarity. 1932S. Zuckerman Soc. Life Monkeys & Apes xi. 185 Loveridge found that Sykes' monkeys were plentiful at Morogoro in East Africa. 1963A. Smith Throw out Two Hands xiii. 132 We had initially been concentrating on a group of Sykes's monkeys. |