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Yams and Potatoes, and sometimes breaking and carrying off a great 

 many ripe Sugar-canes. As a Law of this Island provides a Praemium 

 for destroying these, as well as Racoons, they yearly rather decrease 

 than multiply." Schomburgk, in his History of Barbados written 

 in 1848, states that this monkey was then nearly extinct, but this 

 belief may have been due to his misapprehension that it was a native 

 species of Cebus. 



There seems to be no record of the introduction of this monkey 

 into St. Kitts, though it is said to have become common there. 



I have followed Pocock in using the specific name sabaeus in place 

 of callitrichus, hitherto current for the green guenon. 



