MARMOSETS. 



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The present species is restricted to Colombia, and has been long known in 

 Europe ; it received its name of Pinche on what grounds we know not from the 

 French naturalist Buffon. It is represented in our illustration on p. 194, and is of a 

 ti'ivyish-brown colour on the back ; the outer surface of the limbs and the root of 

 the tail being tinged \vith red, while the long tuft of hair which forms a crest on 



SILKY MARMOSETS ( nat. size). 



the top of the head, as well as the throat, under-parts, arms, and the front of the 

 legs, are white ; the tip of the tail being black. 



Geoffrey's marmoset (M. geoffroyi), which is the representative of the Pinche 

 in Panama, is distinguished from that species by the hair on the crown of the 

 head not being elongated into a crest, but being short, and forming a narrow 

 patch of an oblong shape. Its coloration is very nearly the same as that of 

 the Pinche, with the exception that the hair on the nape of 'the neck is chestnut- 

 coloured. 



