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THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 



putting their heads almost upside-down in 

 efforts at acute criticism at low and musical 

 passages. Every change of note was marked 

 by some alteration of expression in the faces 

 of the excited little monkeys, and a series of 

 discordant notes roused them to a passion 

 of rage." At the same time a big baboon, 

 chained up near, evidently disliked it. He 

 walked off in the opposite direction to the 

 farthest limits of his chain. 



THE AMERICAN MONKEYS 



Mention of the Capuchins takes us to 

 the whole group of the American Monkeys. 

 Nearly all of these live in the tropical forests 

 of Brazil, Guiana, Venezuela, and Mexico. 

 They are all different from the Old World 

 monkeys, and many are far more beautiful. 

 The most attractive of the hardier kinds are 

 the Capuchins ; but there are many kinds of 

 rare and delicate little monkeys more beauti- 

 ful than any squirrel, which would make the 

 most delightful pets in the world, if they were 

 not so delicate. To try to describe the Old 

 World monkeys in separate groups from end 

 to end is rather a hopeless task. But the 

 American monkeys are more manageable by 

 the puzzled amateur. Most of them have a 

 broad and marked division between the nos- 



trils, which are not mere slits close together, but like the nostrils of men. They also have 

 human-looking rounded heads. Their noses are of the " cogitative " order, instead of being 



snouts or snubs with narrow 



openings in them ; and the 



whole face is in many ways 



human and intelligent. The 



HOWLER MONKEYS, which 



utter the most hideous 



sounds ever heard in the 



forests, and the SPIDER 



MONKEYS are the largest. 



The latter have the most 



wonderfully developed 



limbs and tails for catching 



and climbing of any living 



animals. As highly special- 



ised creatures are always 



interesting, visitors to any 



zoological garden will find 



The most intelligent of the comn.on monkeys j t worth while to WPfrV. 3 

 of America. It uses many sound* to express 



ions, and ptrhafs desiret Spider monkey climbing, 



Photo by A. S. Rutland <5r> Sons'] 



HEAD OF MALE MANDRILL 



This is one of the most hideous of living animals. The natives of 

 West Africa hold it in greater dislike even than the large carnivora, 

 from the mischief it does to their crops 



L. Midland, F.Z.S., N^h~nnM 

 BROWN CAPUCHIN 



Photo bj L. Midland, F.Z.S., North FinMij 



DRILL 



Only less ugly than the Mandrill. Its habits art 

 _ the same 



