STRIATED MONKEY. ]3 



to an elevation of many hundred feet On these 

 occasions, the males are remarkable for their consi- 

 deration towards their mates ; no one, like tineas, 

 runs first, and leaves his unprotected Creusa to follow 

 after. They uniformly bring up the rearguard, 

 while the females, climbing, chattering, or squalling, 

 with their young ones in their arms, or on their 

 backs, hasten before. It is highly amusing to watch 

 a company thus decamping. The young ones cling 

 affrighted to their mothers, the mothers appear 

 intent only on effecting their escape, stripling 

 monkeys seem as if they enjoyed the sport, but 

 the fathers occasionally look back with angry 

 menaces, defying any one to follow; and some of 

 the old grandfathers, when they get upon the 

 rocks, and feel secure from pursuit, make the 

 valleys ring with their angry vociferations, and 

 heartily scold the traveller who has dared to in- 

 trude upon them. 



In speaking of the monkeys of America, the 

 natural historian has often to regret the meagreness 

 of his details. He knows them, indeed, by their 

 generic appellations, for the indefatigable Cuvier has 

 given to each a name as well as a locality, but he is 

 continually reminded that the impossibility of ascer- 

 taining their wild habits renders it extremely diffi- 

 cult to furnish such details as might interest the 

 general reader. 



Few particulars have reached us concerning the 

 Ouistilis, or Striated Monkey (S.j ace hus}. He is 

 well known in a captive state, but little has been 

 ascertained respecting him while ranging through 

 his native wilds. 



