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into the air without a moment's hesitation and alights on the 

 dome of yielding foliage belonging to the neighbouring tree, 

 maybe fifty feet beneath ; all the rest following the example. 

 They grasp, on falling, with hands and tail, right themselves in a 

 moment, and then away they go along branch and bough to the 

 next tree." Mr. Belt also mentions having kept a White-fronted 

 Capuchin in captivity for a long time. Its actions, he tells us, 

 were very human-like. " He had quite an extensive vocabulary 

 of sounds, varying from a gruff bark to a shrill whistle ; and we 

 could tell by them, without seeing him, when it was he was 

 hungry, eating, frightened, or menacing; doubtless one of his 

 own species would have understood various minor shades of 

 intonation and expression that we, not entering into his feelings 

 and wants, passed over as unintelligible." 



XI. THE WEEPER CAPUCHIN. CEBUS CAPUCINUS. 



Simla capiicina^ Linn., Syst. Nat., i., p. 42 (1766). 



Cebiis caj)udnus, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. iii (1812); Gray, 



Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 49 (1870); Schl., Mus. 



Pays Bas, vii., p. 19 (1876). 

 Cebiis 7iigrovittaius^ Wagner, Acad. Miinch., v., p. 430 (1847, ex 



Natt. MSS.). 

 Celms olivacetis, Schomb., Reis. Brit. Guiana, ii., p. 246, et iii., 



p. 770 (1848). 

 Cebus casfaneuSf Is. Geoffr., Cat. Meth. Primates, p. 46 



(1851). 



Cebtis versicolor^ Pucher., Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1857, p. 346 (part). 



Cliaracters. — Hairs of crown short, reflexed, but not elevated 

 into a crest. Fur brown, washed with yellow ; crown-spot dark 

 brown, narrow, prolonged down the nose, and expanded back- 



