230 THE . NATURAL HISTORY OE 



THE COUXIO. 



Pithecia satanas. HUMBOI.DT. 



PLATE XXV. 



Lc Couxio, Pithecia satanas, Humboldt and Bonpland % Obser- 

 vations de Zoologie, p. 314 ; Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, Annales 

 du Museum, xix. p. 115. Saki Couxio, Desmarest'i Mam. 

 malogie, p. 89. 



THE Couxio or Couchio was discovered by M. Sieber 

 in an expedition to Brasil, made at the expense of 

 Count Hofmannsegg, and described by that nobleman, 

 with some other animals, in a German periodical. 

 Humboldt has figured it in his Zoological Observations, 

 from one of the specimens now alluded to, and that 

 plate has served also for our illustration ; it is repre- 

 sented eating the frurjt of a species of palm. 



The total length of the animal, including the tail, 

 is about two feet nine inches, and the colour is entire- 

 ly of a dusky-black, paler beneath, where the hair is 

 very thin, and shews a purplish tinge, similar to that 

 of the face and hands. The tail is very bushy ; the 

 hair of it long and soft. Little is known, except 

 that it is a native of the forests of Brasil. 



Of another species we have more knowledge ; and 



