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when the beard is wetted ; and Humboldt is of opinion,' 

 that the method of drinking has been adopted, from 

 the impossibility of the lips being applied to the water 

 in the ordinary way, without wetting the beard. 



The Capuchin de I'Oronoque is not gregarious, and 

 the males are rarely found in company with the female. 

 Their cry is hoarse and hollow, but is very seldom 

 heard. They are found in the vast and desert forests 

 of the High Oronooko, to the south-east of the Cata- 

 racts, but are rather uncommon ; and although said 

 to be found in other parts of South America, were 

 never elsewhere met with by the enterprising na- 

 turalists to whom we have now been indebted for so 

 much information. 



The next animal we shall mention, has been placed 

 last in this genus by Desmarest, and seems to differ 

 from the others considerably ; it is, 



