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an excellent " dress improver," were there only a dress to 

 improve. It inhabits the upper part of the enormous 

 valley of the Amazon. The young traveller, Deville, 

 whose premature death was a sad loss to science, tells us 



FIG. 7. 



THE BALD-HEADED SAKI. 



that a specimen of this species which he captured had 

 the frequent habit of rising spontaneously and walking 

 erect, and that it soon learnt to drink from a glass held 

 in its hand, drinking regularly twice a day. It was very 

 fond of milk, bananas, and sweetmeats, but had, unlike 

 " Happy Jerry," a horror of tobacco, snatching a cigar 



