Sykesn.
/sʌɪks/, U.S. /saɪks/ Sykes' monkey n. (also Sykes's monkey) Cercopithecus albogularis, a blue-grey guenon native to East Africa.
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1831 Proc. Comm. Sci. & Corr. Zool. Soc. London 1830–1 1 viii. 105 Major Sykes subsequently called the attention of the Committee to a Monkey presented by him to the Society.]
1864 Proc. Zool. Soc. 709 Sykes's Monkey.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 14 Sept. 4/1 Cercopithecus albigularis. Sykes's Monkey, as it is called after its discoverer, who brought the first specimen home more than seventy years ago, is a handsomely marked species.
1914 R. C. F. Maugham Wild Game in Zambezia xi. 252 Sykes' Monkey is a comparative rarity.
1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes xi. 185 Loveridge found that Sykes' monkeys were plentiful at Morogoro in East Africa.
1963 A. Smith Throw out Two Hands xiii. 132 We had initially been concentrating on a group of Sykes's monkeys.
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