CHAPTER V. 



ANIMALS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF EGA. 



Scarlet-faced Monkeys — Parauacu Monkey — Owl-faced Night-apes — 

 Marmosets — Jupura — Comparison of Monkeys of the New "World 

 with those of the Old — Bats— Birds — Cnvier's Toucan — Curl- 

 crested Toucan — Insects — Pendulous Cocoons — Foraging Ants — 

 Blind Ants. 



As may have been gathered from the remarks already 

 made, the neighbourhood of Ega was a fine field for a 

 Natural History collector. With the exception of what 

 could be learnt from the few specimens brought home, 

 after transient visits, by Spix and Martius and the 

 Count de Castelnau, whose acquisitions have been depo- 

 sited in the public museums of Munich and Paris, very 

 little was known in Europe of the animal tenants of 

 this region ; the collections that I had the opportunity 

 of making and sending home attracted, therefore, con- 

 siderable attention. Indeed, the name of my favourite 

 village has become quite a household word amongst a 

 numerous class of Naturalists, not only in England but 

 abroad, in consequence of the very large number of new 

 species (upwards of 3000) which they have had to describe, 

 with the locality " Ega" attached to them. The disco- 

 very of new species, however, forms but a small item in 



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