The Living Animals of the World 



Photo by Scholastic Photo. Co.] [Parson's Ureen. 



PATAS MONKEY. 

 Found in West Africa. A large and brilliantly coloured species. 



house, like the Capuchins and spider monkeys. 

 The greater number of these come from 

 tropical America. There, in the mighty 

 forests, so lofty that no man can climb the 

 trees, so dense that there is a kind of upper 

 storey on the interlaced tree-tops, where nearly 

 all the birds and many mammals live without 

 descending to earth, forests in which there 

 is neither summer nor winter, but only the 

 changes from hour to hour of the equatorial 

 day, the exquisite MARMOSETS, whose fur looks 

 like the plumage and whose twittering voices 

 imitate the notes of birds, live and have their 

 being. They are all much alike in shape, 

 except that the LION MARMOSET'S mane is like 

 that of a little lion clad in floss silk ; and 

 they all have sharp little claws, and feed on 

 insects. The PINCHE MARMOSET from the 

 Guiana forests has a face like a black Indian 

 chief, with white plumes over his head and 

 neck like those worn by a " brave " in full 

 war-paint. Merchants who do business with 

 Brazil very frequently import marmosets and 

 the closely allied tamarins as presents for 

 friends in England; the Brazilians them- 

 selves like to have them as pets also ; so 



there is to some extent a trade demand for them. 



Among the most delicate of American monkeys are the 



OUKARIS, which have somewhat human faces, exquisite soft fur, 



and are as gentle as most of these forest creatures. They 



seldom live long in captivity, a few months being as much 



as they will generally endure, even in Brazil. Perhaps the 



rarest of all is the white-haired SCARLET-FACED OUKARI. This 



monkey has long white hair from neck to tail, sandy 



whiskers, and a bright scarlet face. It lives in a district 



of partly flooded forest, and is only obtained by the Indians 



using blow-pipes and arrows dipped in very diluted urari 



poison. The WHITE-HEADED SAKI is a rare and very pretty 



little monkey of Brazil ; and there are a very large number 



of other species of this group whose names it would be 



mere weariness to mention. All these small monkeys are 



very quick and intelligent, while the rapidity of their 



movements, their ever-changing expression, and sharp, 



eager cries heighten the idea of cleverness given by their 



general appearance. Other little imps of these forests are 



the SQUIRREL MONKEYS. In the common species the face 



is like a little furry man's, its arms brilliant yellow (as 



if dipped in gamboge dye), the cheeks pink, and eyes 



black. In habits it is a quick-tempered, imperious little 



creature, carnivorous, and a great devourer of butterflies and 



beetles. 



Pkoto by V. Reid\ [ Wishaw, M.B. 



WANDEROO MONKEY. 



The number of monkeys which have leonine 

 manes is large. The manes act as capes to keep 



The most beautiful and entertaining Of all monkeys the dew and wet from their chests and shoulders. 



