80 MAMMALIA — OU 1ST IT I. 



having, like the macaque, that peculiar smell. They belong to the sapajoti 

 family, as they have a holding tail; they have only two teats, and bring 

 forth but one or two at a time. They are gentle, docile, and so timorous, 

 that their common cry, which resembles that of the cat, is dwindled down 

 to a kind of sighing, when they are threatened. Their food, in this climate, 

 is principally snails and beetles, which they prefer before any other ; but in 

 their native country of Brazil, they chiefly live upon grain, and the wild 

 fruit they pluck from trees, whence they very seldom descend till they have 

 stripped their habitation of its treasure. 



THE STRIATED MONKEY, OR OUISTITI.i 



The name of this animal is taken from the sound of its voice. It is not 

 above six inches long, and its tail more than double that length, which is 

 annulated black and white, like the macauco. Its face is naked, and of a 

 flesh color. It has two very singular tufts of long white hair on the fore 

 part of the ears, which, although very large, cannot be seen by looking at 

 the full face of this animal. Mr Edwards says, that, when it is in good 

 health, it has much hair and tufted; that one of those which he saw, and 

 which was healthy, fed on several things, as biscuits, fruit, pulse, insects, 

 snails ; and, being one day unchained, he struck at a little gold fish which 

 was in a glass globe, killed it, and devoured it with the greatest avidity ; 

 that afterwards, some small eels being put before him, he was frightened 

 when they twisted about his neck, but that he soon conquered and ate them. 

 It is a great enemy to cats. These animals, when young, have an ugly 

 appearance, having scarcely any hair on their bodies. They cling closely 

 to the teats of their dam ; and as they grow older, they fix themselves on 



1 Jacchus vulgaris. This genus has four upper and four lower incisors ; two upper and 

 two lower canines ; six upper and six lower molars. Incisors and canines variable in their 

 dimensions. Molars with a crown, furnished with sharp tubercles; head round, muzzle 

 short; occiput prominent; tail longer than the body, soft, ami entirely covered with hair ; 

 feet pentadactyfe ; thumb of the anterior hands not opposable ; nails very long, compressed, 

 arched, and pointed. 



