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TROPICAL AMERICA AND ITS ANIMALS 



two faunas has to a considerable extent become obliterated. What is perhaps more 

 remarkable is that types like the llamas, originally characteristic of North America, 

 have quite died out there and survive only in the southern continent. 



In contrast to North America where there are none, South 

 America is rich in monkeys, which belong, however, to a group quite 

 distinct from the monkeys of the Old World, from which they differ by their 

 broad, expanded nostrils. No American monkeys have cheek-pouches or bare 

 callosities on the buttocks, and many are distinguished by their prehensile tails. 

 With the exception of the capuchins, none of them possess an opposable thumb. 



WHITE-THROATED CAPUCHIN 



Exclusively arboreal, these are restricted to the warmer countries of America, being 

 unknown beyond the tropic in the north or farther south than the 30th degree 

 of latitude. 



Among the better known members of the group, the weeper-capuchin {Cebns 

 capucinus) ranges from Bahia north-westwards across Brazil to Colombia. Its 

 general colour is golden brown with pale yellow on the temples, cheeks, throat, 

 chest, and front of the shoulders, and a dark stripe down the middle of the head. 

 It owes its name to the whining whistle which forms its cry. From this species 

 the white-throated capuchin (C. hypoleucus) of Central America differs by its 

 colour being mainly black, with white on the cheeks, arms, and shoulders and 

 yellowish on the throat and chest, the bare face being of a pale flesh-colour. The 



