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hue, the hands and feet are brown, and the fingers are clothed with light- 

 brown hairs. The peculiar growth of hair on the head does not appear 

 till middle age, when it is found in both sexes, but more developed in the 

 males. It is exceedingly active and sagacious, travels in bands of thirty or 

 lorty, and plunders remorselessly the plantations of settlers near the forest. 

 The other species require no mention in a work of a popular char- 

 acter. 



II.— GENUS LAGOTHRIX. 



This genus is distinguished from the preceding one by its squarer 

 figure, some peculiarities in the skeleton and teeth, and the woolly hair, 

 from which latter characteristic it derives its name Lagotlirix. It is found 

 in the districts on the headwaters of the Amazon and Orinoco, and lives 

 in groups in trees. All the kinds described by travelers are regarded by 

 naturalists as capable of being embraced in five species. We give the 

 best known and attested species. 



The Barrigudo, Lagotlirix HuinboUitii, is when fully grown little less 

 than the Howling Monkeys. Its soft woolly hair grows long on the tail, 

 the thighs, and tlie upper arm, and becomes a regular mane on the breast; 

 the head looks as if cropped. The face, and the hands, both palm and 

 back, the bare spot on the tail, and the tongue are negro-black; the eyes 

 dark-brown, the coat dull-black on the head, somewhat lighter on the 

 back ; on the further end of the tail a dark brownish-yellow. 



Tschudi describes the Barrigudo — as the natives name them — as 

 malicious and daring, often following for a long distance the Indians who 

 carrv the productions of remote plantations to market in the upper 

 valleys. The apes pelt them with twigs and branches. They are bad 

 climbers, and all their movements are slow and deliberate. When 

 brought to bay, they put their backs against a tree and fight till death. 

 The Indians hunt it for its flesh. In captivity it is a gentle creature, but 

 seldom survives removal from its home ; even the change to Para is 

 usuallv fatal. One in the Zoological Gardens of London is described as 

 amiable and attractive ; in all its actions it equally avoided haste and 

 sluggishness, and displayed grace and precision ; a solemn attitude seems 

 natural to it, and suits well. In distinction from the Spider apes and 

 Cebida;, which are always whimpering or whining, the Barragudo utters 

 onl)^ one cry like a sharp " Tsha " not repeated. 



