36 ATELEUS 



placing them for several hours on a framework of sticks arranged over 

 a fire, a plan adopted by the natives to preserve fish when they have 

 no salt, and which they call 'Muquiar.' My monkeys lasted me about 

 a fortnight, the last joint being an arm with the clenched fist, which 

 I used with great economy, hanging it in the intervals between my 

 frugal meals on a nail in the cabin." 



Ateleus eufiventris Sclater. 



Ateles (!) vellerosus Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, p. 478, 

 (nee Gray). 



Ateles ( !) rufiventris Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 688, 

 pi. LVII; Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Simise, 1876, p. 182; 

 Alston, Biol. Centr. Amer., I, Mamm., 1879, p. 8 ; Forbes, 

 Handb. Primates, I, 1894, p. 236; Elliot, Mamm. Middle 

 Amer. and W. Indies, F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. II, 1904, p. 734, 

 Zool. Ser. ; Id. Check-L. Mamm. N. Amer. Cont. and W. 

 Indies, F. C. M. Pub., VI, 1905, p. 535, Zool. Ser. 



FULVOUS-BELLIED SPIDER MONKEY. 



Type locality. River Atrato, Colombia. Type in British Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Panama? into Colombia, South America. 



Genl. Char. Fur coarse, hairs long, those on forehead and on top 

 of head directed backward ; thumb absent. 



Color. Black line from inner corners of eyes and side of nose 

 to cheeks, rest of face flesh color, under parts extending a short 

 distance on inner side of arms and legs, bright rufous; all the rest of 

 head, body, limbs, hands, feet and tail black. The line between the 

 color of the under parts and black of the body is sharply drawn, and 

 does not grade over into the other at any place Ex type British 

 Museum. 



Measurements. The type is that of an immature animal hardly 

 half grown, and no skull seems to have been preserved. 



The evidence of this animal occurring in Panama, rests solely 

 on a specimen in the Leyden Museum, stated to have been "tue en 

 Panama." This is hardly satisfactory, as there seems to be an 

 authority wanting for this locality, and its appearance therefore in 

 Central America can only be regarded as doubtful. 



The type was obtained on the Rio Atrato and was a young 

 individual, which was captured alive, and sold to the Zoological Society 

 of London. 



