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Midas illigeri, Geoffr., Cat. Me'th. Primates, p. 65 (1851); 



Schl., Mus. Pays Bas, vii., p. 65 (1876). 

 Midas flavifronS) var. d. Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 67 



(1870). 

 Midas devil/ii (nee Geoffr.\ Sclater, P. Z. S., 1871, p. 220, pi. xiii. 



Characters. Head black ; back black, washed with grey ; 

 back of head, nape of neck, shoulders and humeral region 

 black, washed with reddish-brown ; under side and the outer 

 and inner surface of both limbs red ; tail at base and tip red, 

 intermediate portion black. 



The sexes hardly differ; the male being merely rather 

 larger and darker, especially on the head and nape, where the 

 hair is longer. 



Distribution. Mr. E. Bartlett says that this was the only 

 Midas met with by him in Eastern Peru. It was plentiful 

 everywhere in the Peruvian Amazons ; and he obtained speci- 

 mens both on the Huallaga and Ucayali rivers. 



HaMts. This species is extremely delicate, and will not bear 

 the least cold. " I have had them alive," writes Mr. Edward 

 Bartlett, "for two or three weeks; but they appear to suffer 

 from cold and die. They are kept, however, by the Indian 

 women, who make pets of them and put them into the long 

 hair on their heads. With this protection they are able to live 

 for a long time. Having become tame, they frequently hop out 

 and feed, or, having captured a spider or two, scamper back 

 again, and hide under the luxuriant crop of their owners, who 

 are generally unwilling to part with them." 



With the succeeding species commences the group of 

 Tamarins with no mane and without white lips. 



