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as though it held a ball of snow-white cotton in its 

 teeth. The last I shall mention is the Hapale pygmagus, 

 one of the most diminutive forms of the monkey order. 

 I obtained, near St. Paulo, three full-grown specimens, 

 which measured only seven inches in length of body. 

 The pretty Lilliputian face is furnished with long brown 

 whiskers, which are naturally brushed back over the 

 ears. The general colour of the animal is brownish- 

 tawny, but the tail is elegantly barred with black. I 

 was surprised, on my return to England, to learn that 

 the pigmy marmoset was found also in Mexico, no 

 other Amazonian monkey being known to wander far 

 from the great river plain. Thus the smallest, and 

 apparently the feeblest, species of the whole order, is 

 one which has, by some means, become the most widely 

 dispersed. 



The Jiipnra. — A curious animal, known to natural- 

 ists as the Kinkajou, but called Jupura by the Indians 

 of the Amazons, and considered by them as a kind of 

 monkey, may be mentioned in this place. It is the 

 Cercoleptes caudivolvus of zoologists, and has been con- 

 sidered by some authors as an intermediate form between 

 the Lemur family of apes and the plantigrade Carni- 

 vora, or Bear family. It has decidedly no close rela- 

 tionship to either of the groups of American monkeys, 

 having six cutting teeth to each jaw, and long claws 

 intead of nails, with extremities of the usual shape of 

 paws instead of hands. Its muzzle is conical and 

 pointed, like that of many Lemurs of Madagascar ; the 

 expression of its countenance, and its habits and actions, 

 are also very similar to those of Lemurs. Its tail is 



