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LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY, 



though someone had laid a thick coat of red paint on its coun- 

 tenance. . . . After seeing much of the morose disposi- 

 tion of the Uakari, I was not a Uttle surprised one day, at a 

 friend's house, to find an extremely lively and familiar indi- 

 vidual of the species. It ran from an inner chamber straight 

 towards me after I had sat down on a chair, climbed my legs 



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Map of part of the basin of the Amazons to show the distribution of 

 the Uakari Monkeys. (Forbes, P. Z. S., iSSo, p. 6^7.) 



Supposed area of B. melanocephalus^ 



Oi B. rtibiaindus^ 



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and nestled in my lap, turning round and looking up with the 

 usual Monkey's grin after it had made itself comfortable. It 

 was a young animal, which had been taken when its mother 

 way shot with a poisoned arrow; its teeth were incomplete, 

 and the face was pale and mottled, the glowing scarlet hue 

 not supervening in these animals before mature age ; it had 

 also a few long black hairs on the eyebrows and lips. The 



