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APES, MONKEYS, AND LEMURS 



THE WOOLLY SPIDER-MONKEYS 

 Genus Eriodes 



The woolly spider-monkeys form a kind of connecting link between the woolly 

 monkeys on the one hand, and the true spider-monkeys on the other ; having the 

 woolly under-fur of the former, but the slender build of the latter, while their 

 thumbs are rudimentary. They differ, however, from both in that their nails are 



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THE WOOI^Y SPIDER-MONKEY. 

 (One-sixth natural size.) 



extremely compressed from side to side, and sharply pointed at the ends ; while the 

 partition between the nostrils is narrower. 



Not much appears to be known of these monkeys, which have never been rep- 

 resented in the collection of the Zoological Society. They are confined to South- 

 east Brazil, and have been divided into three species, mainly according to the degree 

 of development of the thumb. The late Dr. Gray was, however, of opinion that 



