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circles of flesh round the eyes. It is a very tender, delicate ani- 

 mal, and held in high price. 



Of the sagoins with feeble tails there are six kinds. The 

 first and the largest is the saki, or cagui ; so remarkable for the 

 length of the hair on its tail, that it has been often termed the 

 FOX-TAILED MONKEY. It is of different sizes ; some being twice 

 as large as others. 



The second of this kind is the tamain ; which is usually 

 black, with the feet yellow. Some, however, are found all 

 over brown, spotted with yellow. 



The third is the vvistiti ; remarkable for the large tufts of 

 hair upon its face, and its annulated tail. * 



* The Striated Monkey. — ITiis animal is, in size, no larger than a squirrel. 

 The tail is long, very tliickly covered with fur, and beautifully marked 

 through its whole length, with alternate rings of black and white. The 

 body is of a reddish ash-colour, slightly undulated with dusky shades. The 

 face is of a dark flesh-coloiu', having on each side a very large and tliick tuft 

 of milk-wliite hair, standing out before the ears. The paws, which are co- 

 vered with hair, have sharp nails. In a native state, these very beautiful 

 little creatiu-es, like most others of their tribe, live in society, on trees, the 

 females carrying their young ones firmly cUnging to their backs. They are 

 found in the woods and forests of South America, where they are believed 

 to subsist chiefly on fruits and vegetables : those, however, wliich have been 

 kept ill a state of captivity, have been known to feed on fish, insects, and 

 worms. One that was brought to England in an East India ship, would eat 

 nuts, but could not be prevailed with to touch ripe fruits. This creature 

 was peculiarly fond of the smaller kinds of spiders and their eggs ; but he 

 uniformly refused the larger ones, as well as the large blue bottle-flies, 

 though he frequently ate those of the common species. 



Tfie Enteltus Monkey. — Although there is reason to believe that this is 

 one of the most common Monkeys both of the Peninsula of Hindostan and 

 of the islands of the Indian Archipelago, it has seldom been brought alive to 

 this country. On the continent of Eiuope specimens appear to be almost 

 equally rare. The species was first made known by M. Dufresne, in 1797, 

 from a skin in Ms possession, which was sliortly afterwards figured by Au- 

 dcbert in liis large work on the Monkeys, whence it was adopted by later 

 zoologists. After an interval of more than twenty years the arrival of a 

 liviug individual, of small size and immatiu-e age, at the Jardin du Roi in 

 Paris, enabled M. Frederic Cuvier to publish a second original figure, more 

 valuable than the first as having been taken from the life. The same natur- 

 alist has subsequently given a still more striking and characteristic likeness 

 of the adult animal, taken from a drawing sent from India by M. Duvaucel. 

 These figures and the observations which accompany them constitute the 

 siuu of all that has hitherto been known to science respecting this very re- 

 markable and interesting species. 



The genus Seranopithecus of M. F. Cuvier, of which the Entellus offers a 

 truly characteristic example, is distinguished from the other Monkeys of 



