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though someone had laid a thick coat of red paint on its coun- 

 tenance. . . . After seeing much of the morose disposi- 

 tion of the Uakari, I was not a little surprised one day, at a 

 friend's house, to find an extremely lively and familiar indi- 

 vidual of the species. It ran from an inner chamber straight 

 towards me after I had sat down on a chair, climbed my legs 



Fig. 8. 



Map of part of the basin of the Amazons to show the distribution of 

 the Uakari Monkeys. (Forbes, P. Z. S., 1880, p. 647.) 



Of B. calmis, 



Supposed area of B. melanocephahi 



Of B. rubictindus, 



and nestled in my lap, turning round and looking up with the 

 usual Monkey's grin after it had made itself comfortable. It 

 was a young animal, which had been taken when its mother 

 was shot with a poisoned arrow; its teeth were incomplete, 

 and the face was pale and mottled, the glowing scarlet hue 

 not supervening in these animals before mature age ; it had 

 also a few long black hairs on the eyebrows and lips. The 



