184 Lloyd's natural history. 



and pointed; nails of the other toes long, curved, and com 

 pressed. 



Distribution. — Mr. Bates States that the "Parauacii," as this 

 Monkey is called by the natives of its own country, is found 

 on the "terra firma" lands of the north shore of the Solimoens, 

 or Upper Amazon, from Tunantins to Peru. It exists also on 

 the south side of the river on the banks of the Teife, but there 

 under a changed form, which differs from its type in colours, 

 as much as the red differs from the white Uakari. This variety 

 is Dr. Gray's Pithecia albicans. 



Habits. — The Hairy Saki is a very timid and inoffensive 

 animal, and is also, as Mr. Bates tells us in his well-known 

 book, "very delicate, rarely living many weeks in captivity; 

 but anyone who succeeds in keeping it alive for a month 

 or two, gains by it a most affectionate pet. One of the 

 specimens now in the British Museum was, when living, the 

 property of a neighbour of mine at Ega. It became so tame 

 in the course of a few weeks that it followed him about the 

 streets like a dog. My friend was a tailor, and the little pet 

 used to spend the greater part of the day seated on his 

 shoulder whilst he was at work on his board. It showed, 

 nevertheless, great dislike to strangers, and was not on good 

 terms with any other member of my friend's household than 

 himself. . . . The eager and passionate Cehi seem to 

 take the lead of all the South American Monkeys in intelli- 

 gence and docility, and the Coaita, one of the Spider-Monkeys 

 {Ateles pa7iiscus)^ has, perhaps, the most gentle and impression- 

 able disposition ; but the Parauacd, although a dull, cheerless 

 animal, excels all in this quality of capability of attachment 

 to individuals of our own species, nor is it wanting in intelli- 

 gence." 



