THE ABAGUATO, OR URSINE HOWLER. 



Brazil are accustomed to make the skin of the Miriki into cases wherewith to 

 cover the locks of their gims in rainy days. 



This species is easily distinguishable from its companions by the presence of 

 a better developed thumb on the fore-pa\vs than falls to the lot of spider monkeys 

 generally. 



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ARAGUATO, OR URSINE liO^VLER.—3fyce/es ursifius. 



Several species of Howling Monkeys are knoAsn to science, of w^hich the 

 Araguato as it is called in its own land, the Ursine Howler as it is popularly 

 named in this countiy, is, perhaps, the commonest and most conspicuous. It is 

 larger than any of the New World monkeys which have hitherto been noticed ; 

 its length being very nearly three feet when it is fully grown, and the tail reaching 

 to even a greater length. 



The colour of the fur is a rich reddish-brown, or rather bay, enlivened bv a 

 golden lustre when a brighter ray of light than usual plays over its surface. The 

 beard which so thickly decorates the chin, throat, and neck, is of a deeper colour 

 than that of the body. 



Few animals have desei-ved the name which they bear so well as the Howling 

 Monkeys. Their horrid yells are so loud, that they can be heard plainly, although 



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