42 QUADRUMANA. 



C. allifrons. (Lat. albus, white,, and frons, forehead.) The 

 OUAVAPAVI, or WHITE-FACED CAPUCHIN. 



This animal has a grayish blue face, except the pure white 

 orbits and forehead. The color of the body is grayish olive. 

 Troops of these monkeys are found in the forests of Oronoco. 

 The Indians often keep them as playthings, and derive from 

 them much entertainment. Humboldt saw a domesticated one 

 that caught a pig every morning, and rode him about the whole 

 day, while he was feeding in the savanna. Another, in the 

 house of a missionary, bestrode a cat which had been brought 

 up with it, and patiently submitted to its rider. 



C.fatuellus. (Lat., the same as Faunus, or Pan, a Roman divin- 

 ity.) The Sagou Cornu, or HORNED MONKEY. 



This species takes its name from the bushes of hair which ele- 

 vate themselves on the base of the forehead, producing a resem- 

 blance to horns. The color in some of these animals is a deep 

 brown, or purplish black ; in others, reddish brown. It is a na- 

 tive of French Guiana. 



II. SAGOINS. 



These include several groups, which, though differing from 

 each other in some particulars, agree in having tails that are 

 feeble andwoJ prehensile, but which they use for protecting them- 

 selves against the cold, of which they are very sensible. They 

 are light and graceful in their movements ; of a lively, timid, 

 and irritable disposition. Their food consists of fruit, birds' eggs, 

 and insects. Of the genera belonging to this division we name 

 the 



Callitlirix sciureus. (Gr. xaA6<?, kalos, beautiful, Ogtis, thrix, 

 hair.) Sciureus, the specific term, is from the Gr. axiofyeog, 

 (skiureus,') squirrel-like. 



This is the SAIMIRI of Buffon, otherwise called the SQUIRREL 

 MONKEY, and is a very beautiful little animal not quite a foot 

 long, and with a tail three or four inches longer than the body. 



It is native to Brazil and Guiana. The head is rounded in 

 form'; the muzzle is short and dark colored ; the ears very large, 

 and it has a large bushy tail. Around the eyes are two circles 

 of flesh. The general color is olive gray ; but the fore-arms 

 and legs are of a fine orange red. Its cry is a hissing sort of 

 whistle repeated three or four times, and expressive of impatience 

 or anger. The tail, though not properly prehensile, it sometimes 

 winds around objects as a sort of feeler or support, so that this 

 animal may be regarded as a link between this division and the 

 Ordinary SAPAJOUS. 



