212 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



Characters. — Head round; muzzle protruding. Fur black, 

 ringed with golden-yellow ; under side of body rufous. Hairs 

 of back brown at base, red higher up, black at the tips. 



Distribution. — Brazil. 



VIL THE TUFTED CAPUCHIN. CEBUS CIRRIFEPv. 



Le Sajou 7iegre, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Mamm. Suppl., p. 109, 



pi. 28. 

 Cebus cirrifer, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. no (1812); Gray, 



Cat. Monkeys Brit, Mus., p. 49 (1870). 

 Cebus cucullatus^ Spix, Sim. et Vespert., Bras., p. 9, pi. 6 (1823, 



juv.). 

 Macaco prego^ Bates, Nat. Amazon., i., p. 323 (1863). 

 Cebus niger, Schl., Mus. Pays Bas, vii., p. 202 (1876). 



Characters. — Head round ; hairs of crown short and reversed, 

 sometimes elongated into two retrorsal tufts. Fur short, close, 

 and in general colour maroon, turning to black, darker on the 

 under surface ; face, chin, sides of forehead and a streak above 

 the eyebrows, yellowish-white. 



Distribution. — Lower Amazon region. 



Habits. — Little is known of this Monkey beyond what Mr. 

 Bates has told us, viz., that it is a great depredator of the fruit 

 trees. " It is a most impudent thief; it destroys more than it 

 eats by its random, hasty way of plucking and breaking the 

 f.uits, and when about to return to the forest, carries away all 

 it can in its hands or under its arms." 



VIII. THE CRESTED CAPUCHIN. CEBUS ROEUSTUS. 



Cebus robusfus, Kuhl, Beitr. Zool., p. 35 (1820, ex Ncuwied 

 INISS.); Is. Geoffr., Cat. Meth. Primates, p. 43 (1851); 

 Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 51 (1870). 



