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solve the mystery. An oft-told but interesting story is that related of one 

 kept by the French naturalist Andouin. It exhibited greal fear when a 

 wasp was presented to it, though it enjoyed nothing better than to catch 

 flies and other insects. This led to the experiment of showing it the 

 colored plates in a work on natural history. At the pictures of a ca1 and a 

 wasp it recognized its enemies, and became greatly terrified, while it quick I \ 



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Fig. 534. — Marmosets, or sagouins (Hapale). 



precipitated itself upon the figure of a beetle or a grasshopper, as it to 

 seize the objects represented there. Marmosets are frequently brought 

 to our northern countries, but they do not thrive over-well. The weather 

 is too cold, and like the rest of their tribe, they show a great tendency 

 towards consumption, which affects them exactly as it does man. and ter- 

 minates with the same sad results. In their native country they live on 



