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to bough like the larger monkeys. The}^ live on fruits and 

 insects, but are much afraid of wasps, which they are said 

 to recognise even in a picture. 



This completes our meagre sketch of the American 

 monkeys, and we see that, although they possess no such 

 remarkable forms as the gorilla or the t3aboons, yet they 

 exhibit a wonderful diversity of external characters, con- 



40. — GOLDEN MARMOSET {Mi'las chnjsoUucas). 



sidering that all seem equally adapted to a purely arboreal 

 life. In the howlers we have a specially developed voice- 

 organ, which is altogether peculiar ; in the spider-monkeys 

 we find the adaptation to active motion among the topmost 

 branches of the forest trees carried to an extreme point of 

 development ; while the singular nocturnal monkeys, the 



