88 CEBUS 



country from whence it came give it a very disadvantageous position 

 among the species of Cebus. This is the more remarkable, for it is 

 nearly a century since it was described, and yet we are still waiting for 

 more material which will show what status this type specimen should 

 have among the species. 



Cebus albifeons (Humboldt). 



Simia {Cebus) albifrons Humb., Rec. Obser. Zool., I, 1811, 



(1815), pp. 323, 356. 

 Cebus albifrons E. Geoff., Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, XIX, 1812, 

 p. \ll; Id. Cours Hist. Nat. Mamm., 1828, p. 9, lOme Legon; 

 Kuhl, Beitr. Zool., 1820, p. 34; Desm., Mamm., 1820, p. 83; 

 Fisch., Syn. Mamm., 1829, p. 50; Less., Spec. Mamm., 1840, 

 p. 154; Wagn., Schreb., Saugth. Suppl., I, 1840, p. 208; V, 

 1855, p. 93; Tschudi, Faun. Peruan., 1844, p. 42; Bates, Nat. 

 Riv. Amaz., 1863, II, p. 101 ; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1865, p. 826; Id. Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating 

 Bats, Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 50 ; Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Simiae, 

 1876, p. 195 ; Forbes, Handb. Primates, I, 1894, p. 213. 

 Cebus gracilis Spix, Sim. et Vespert. Bras., 1823, p. 8, pi. V; 

 Wagn., Abhandl. Bayer. Akad. Miinch., V, 1848, p. 426 ; Id. 

 Schreb., Saugth. Suppl., V, 1855, p. 90. 

 Cebus leucocephalus Blainv., Osteog., 1840, Atl., Cebus, pi. V; 

 *Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 827; Id. Cat. Mon- 

 keys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats, Brit. Mus., 1876, p. 50; 

 Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 4. 

 Cebus versicolor Pucher., Bull. Soc. Philom., 1856, p. 34. 

 Cebus (Calyptrocebus) gracilis Reichenb., Vollstand. Naturg. 



Affen, 1862, p. 30, pi. VI, fig. 85. 

 Cebus (Calyptrocebus) albifrons Reichenb., Vollstand. Naturg. 

 Affen, 1862, p. 42, not figured. 

 WHITE-FRONTED CAPUCHIN. Coiardro, native name. 



Type locality. Mission of Santa Barbara, Cataracts of the 

 Orinoco. 



Geogr. Distr. Forests of the Orinoco, and of the Amazon and its 

 tributaries, Rio Negro, (Bates) ; Rio Japura and Rio Teffe, (Spix) ; 

 near Borba, Rio Madeira, (Natterer) ; Colombia, (Plee and Schlegel) ; 

 Province of Minas, Peru, (Tschudi). 



♦Gray states that this is not C. albitrons Geoff., but his description gives 

 no difference. 



