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CEBITS MONACHUS. 

 THE LARGE HEADED SAPAJOU. ' 



PLATE XXH. 



From a Specimen lately in the Royal Edinburgh 

 Zoological Gardens, 



THERE was a fine specimen of this Monkey in the 

 Gardens about two years ago ; it was exceedingly 

 timid and morose, yet not ill-natured or mis- 

 chievous, always keeping as far away from the 

 visitors as it could, by clinging to the higher bars 

 of the cage ; avoiding, with equal care, its fellow 

 inmates; by whom, although much smaller and 

 weaker, it underwent a constant system of perse- 

 cution. By the way of bettering its condition, it 

 was removed into a cage, containing four or five 

 Racoons ; but they turned out to be of " the wicked 

 whose tender mercies are cruel ;" as they one night, 

 by way of a ploy, took the liberty of killing and 

 eating him. 



