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THE MICO, OR FAIR MONKEY. 



Is the last that we shall describe of this numer- 

 ous race, and is the most beautiful of them all. Its' 

 head is small and round; face and ears of so lively 

 a vermilion colour, as to appear the effect of art; 

 its body is covered with long hair, of a bright 

 silvery \vhiteness, and uncommon elegance ; tail 

 long, and of a shining dark chesnut colour. 



It frequents the banks of the river Amazon, 

 where it was discovered by M. Condamine, who 

 preserved one alive till almost within sight of the 

 French coast; but it died before his arrival. 



We have now laid before our readers a few of the 

 most noted varieties of this numerous race; many 

 others might likewise be added to swell the accounts 

 but of these little more is known than their names 

 and places of habitation. There are, probably, 

 still more, which neither the assiduity of the 

 naturalist, nor the curiosity of the traveller has 

 been able to draw from their native woods. In- 

 deed, there is great room to conjecture, that the 

 variations of the Monkey kind are somewhat like 



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