tllE SflDEk-MONKEY^. ^4t 



setved in his collections at Paris an arm and hand, which had 

 been boiled over the fire at Esmeraldas ; and no smell arises 

 from them after a great number of years." 



VI. THE BLACK-FACED SPIDER- MONKEY. ATELES ATER. 



A teles ater (Le Caijou), F. Cuvier, Mamm., i., pi. xxxix. 

 (1823); Sclater, P. Z. S., 1872, p. 5; Gray, Cat. Mon- 

 keys Brit. Mus., p. 42 (1870) ; Schl., Mus. Pays Bas, vii., 

 p. 170 (1876). 



Sapajou ater, Slack, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phihd., 1862, p. 510 



Characters. — Entirely black; fur silky, and longer on the head 

 and tail than on the body ; fur on top of head directed from 

 behind forwards, falling over the forehead, meeting the back- 

 wardly directed hairs of the forehead and forming a tuft. Face 

 black, the upper part naked ; chin with stiff black hairs mixed 

 with a few white ones. Ears oval and human-like in form, the 

 upper part movable at will. Thumbs entirely wanting. Length 

 of body, 19 inches; tail, 26 inches. 



Distinguished from A. patiiscus, which it closely resembles, 

 by the black colour of its face, and the direction of the hairs 

 on the forehead. 



Young. — Lighter in colour than the adults; sometimes brown 

 on the back and the outer side of the limbs. 



Distribution. — The Black-Faced Spider-Monkey ranges from 

 Panama, through the United States of Colombia to Eastern 

 Peru. 



Habits. — Entirely Arboreal, living in large ttoops, and feeding 

 on fruits. 



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