MAMMALIA. 
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nose bright scarlet; eyes very small; irides hazel; hair of the 
head long, erect, terminating in a pointed apex; beard long, 
yellowish; body covered with bristly hairs, each of which is 
annulated with black and yellow; general appearance of a 
greenish cast; canine teeth remarkable for their strength. Five 
feet high. 
Inhabits Africa on the Gold Coast. 
Tribe II.— American Apes. 
(Simiae Platyrrhini, Geoffroy.) 
Head round ; on each side of both jaws are six blunt tuber- 
culated grinders ; no cheek pouches ; nostrils opening on the 
sides of the nose ; partition broad ; tail long, generally prehen¬ 
sile ; hinder parts hairy, without callosities. 
Section 1st. — Sapajous. —Tail long and prehensile. 
Genus 8.—Ateles. — Geoffroy. 
Generic Character. —Incisorv teeth \; canines ; grinders 
sle > facial angle GO degrees; ears bordered; extremities very 
long and slender; the anterior ones generally tetradactyle ; no 
thumb, but sometimes replaced by a wart ; tail very long, and 
strongly prehensile ; the under part, towards the point, naked. 
Bring forth but one at a birth. 
* With a very small nailed thumb on the anterior hands, or a 
rudimentary nailless thumb. 
Ateles Hypoxanthus. — Desmarest.— Face skin-coloured, with 
gray spots; fur grayish-fawn colour; hinder parts, yellow rust 
colour; thumb short and strong. Two feet long, tail the same. 
Inhabits Brazil. 
** With no vestige of a thumb on the anterior hands. 
Ateles Paniscus. — The Coaita. 
Plate IV. fig. 7. 
The face flesh-coloured, and the whole body of a uniform 
