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Although subject to great individual variation in this respect, the general color 

 of the thick and rather harsh fur is reddish brown, becoming darker on the middle 

 of the back, as well as on the legs and tail. The fore-arms, together with a broad 

 spot on the crown of the head and the whiskers, are nearly or quite black ; while 

 the front of the shoulders is yellowish. It is on either side of the dark spot on 

 the crown of the head that the crests are situated in the ' ' horned ' ' variety. The 

 face and other naked parts have a violet tinge. 



This sapajou has long been known to science, a specimen having been ex- 

 hibited in the King's Menagerie at Paris soon after the middle of the last century, 

 and described by the French naturalist Brisson. Another example, described by 

 Frederic Cuvier, was exhibited in the same collection in the year 1820. It is in 

 winter, when the fur is longest, that the crests of the ' ' horned ' ' variety become 

 most prominent ; these never making their appearance until the animal has cut its 

 permanent canine teeth. Like that of its congeners, the disposition of this species 

 in captivity is mild and affe 



THE SLENDER SAPAJOU (Cebus pallidus) 



The slender or white sapajou appears to be a rare local species allied to the 

 preceding, and inhabiting Bolivia in the neighborhood of Santa Cruz. It is dis- 

 tinguished by the smaller size and lighter color of the dark spot on the crown of 

 the head, which is generally brown, and often has a small crest on each side. 

 The general color of the fur is fulvous, or grayish-fulvous, the limbs and tail 

 being of a darker brown, and the beard a golden yellow. There is also a nearly 

 white variety. Mr. Bates, who alludes to the slender sapajou as the Caiarara 

 Branca, heard of its reported existence in the forests of the Tapajos River, which 

 flows into the Amazon from the Cordillera Goral, on the Bolivian frontier of Brazil. 

 His search was, however, in vain, and he was subsequently informed that the 

 species only occurred across the watershed in Bolivia. 



Another nearly related monkey, more widely spread in South America, is the 

 tufted sapajou (C. cirrifer), in which the general color of the short fur is black, but 

 yellowish-white on the cheeks, chin, sides of the forehead, and a narrow band over 

 the eyebrows. Two long, recurved tufts of hair, which often occur on the side of 

 the head, give the distinctive name to this monkey. 



A monkey known to the natives of the Lower Amazon valley as the Macaca 

 Prego is provisionally identified with this species by Mr. Bates, who speaks of it as 

 frequenting the cultivated lands, where it commits wholesale depredations with 

 the most unblushing effrontery. The worst of these thefts is that, from the hasty 

 and random manner in which the fruit is broken and plucked, the creature wastes 

 far more than it can eat. When about to return to its native forest, it carries away 

 as much plunder as it can hold in its hands and under its arms. 



THE WEEPER SAPAJOU (Cebus caputinus) 



One of the best known and most common species of the genus is the weeper 

 sapajou, or capuchin, of Brazil, represented in the right-hand figure on p. 151. 



