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the features up to the roots of the hair on the forehead 

 and temples, and down to the neck, including the 

 flabby cheeks which hang down below the jaws. The 

 animal, in this condition, looks at a short distance as 

 though some one had laid a thick coat of red paint on 

 its countenance. The death of my pet was slow ; during 

 the last twenty-four hours it lay prostrate, breathing 

 quickly, its chest strongly heaving ; the colour of its face 

 became gradually paler, but was still red when it expired. 

 As the hue did not quite disappear until two or three 

 hours after the animal was quite dead, I judged that it 

 was not exclusively due to the blood, but partly to a 

 pigment beneath the skin which would probably retain 

 its colour a short time after the circulation had ceased. 



After seeing much of the morose disposition of the 

 Uakari, I was not a little surprised one day at a friend's 

 house to find an extremely lively and familiar individual 

 of this species. It ran from an inner chamber straight 

 towards me after I had sat down on a chair, climbed 

 my legs and nestled in my lap, turning round and 

 looking up with the usual monkey's grin, after it had 

 made itself comfortable. It was a young animal which 

 had been taken when its mother was shot with a 

 poisoned arrow ; its teeth were incomplete, and the face 

 was pale and mottled, the glowing scarlet hue not 

 supervening in these animals before mature age ; it had 

 also a few long black hairs on the eyebrows and lips. 

 The frisky little fellow had been reared in the house 

 amongst the children, and allowed to run about freely, 

 and take its meals with the rest of the household. 

 There are few animals which the Brazilians of these 



