58 LAGOTHRIX 



large male of one of these kinds, which measured twenty-seven inches 

 in length of trunk, the tail being twenty-six inches long; it was the 

 largest monkey I saw in America with the exception of a black 

 Howler whose body was twenty-eight inches in height ! The skin of 

 the face of the Barrigudo is black and wrinkled, the forehead is low, 

 with the eyebrows projecting, and, in short, it altogether resembled in 

 a striking manner those of an old negro. In the forests, the Barrigudo 

 is not a very active animal ; it lives exclusively on fruits, and is much 

 persecuted by the Indians, on account of the excellence of its flesh as 

 food. From information given me by a collector of birds and mam- 

 mals, whom I employed, and who resided a long time amongst the 

 Tucuna Indians near Tabatinga, I calculated that one horde of this 

 tribe, 200 in number, destroyed 1,200 of these monkeys annually for 

 food. This species is very numerous in the forests of the higher lands, 

 but owing to long persecution it is now seldom seen in the neighbor- 

 hood of the largec villages. It is not found at all on the Lower 

 Amazons. Its manners in captivity are grave, and its temper mild and 

 confiding like that of the Coaitas. Owing to these traits, the Barrigudo 

 is much sought after for pets ; but it is not hardy like the Coaitas, and 

 seldom survives a passage down the river to Para." 



Lagothrix lugens Elliot. 



Lagothrix lugens Elliot, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., XX, 7th Ser., 

 1907, p. 193. 



Type locality. Mountains 2° 20' north of Tolima, Colombia. 

 Altitude 5,000 to 7,000 feet. Type in British Museum. 



Genl. Char. Body stout, heavy, like L. lagoteicha, color very 

 different ; fur thick, woolly ; limbs moderate in length ; tail very long, 

 and very large and broad at base. Nasals very different in shape from 



those of L. LAGOTRICHA. 



Color. Male. Head, arms and body dark purplish brown almost 

 black ; legs and tail blackish brown washed with gray, the hairs being 

 grayish brown at base, then black and tipped with gray or yellowish ; 

 breast reddish chestnut, rest of under parts black. 



Measurements. Size same as L. lagotricha. Skull : total length, 

 112, (occiput broken); occipito-nasal length, 105; zygomatic width, 

 74; intertemporal width, 45; palatal length, 34; breadth of braincase, 

 57; length of braincase from end of nasals, 79; median length of 

 nasals, 13; width of nasals anteriorly, 13; length of upper molar 

 series, 24; length of mandible, 74; length of lower molar series, 30.5. 



