^5 THE FOUR FINGERED MONKEY. 



6ued, he will pick off the fruit, and throw it with 

 singular dexterity at the head of his adversary ; and 

 he frequently adopts other more unpleasant modes of 

 repulsion. In these situations he assumes a thou- 

 fcAud ridiculous attitudes, which afford considerable 

 diversion to the sp^cUtqrs, 



These animals, hkc most others of the tribe, when 

 on expeditions of plunder, have the sagacity to 

 place cenlinels on the heights of the forest, to give 

 warning of the approach of danger*. — It has been 

 s^\d by Ulloa, that, in their native forests, when 

 they want to pass frqm top t(j top of lofty trees, too 

 distant for a leap, they will form a chain, by hang- 

 ing down linked to each other by their tails ; and 

 S'wing in this manner till the lowest catches hold of 

 9. bough of tJie next tree, from whence he draws the 

 refit up. We are also told, tjjat they occasionally 

 cross rivers, where the banks are very steep, by the 

 same expedient f. 



The female brings forth one or two young, which 

 the always carries on her back. During the fruit 

 season these animals become fit, aiul they are then 

 thought eixcUent eating. — ^J'hpre colour is uniformly 

 black, except tlie face, which is of a dark llcsh co- 

 lour. They have no thumbs on their fore-paws, 

 \mt in the j)iace of them have very small aj)pcn- 

 tiices, or pro jectous. 



* liaiicroft, l.'i'^. 

 t TIk- truth of tliis nsu-itum of Ulloa is doubled Ijv Stcdinan, who 

 syv*' fiHicli of tin- iiiMuiKTs of (lu- South AiiK'iitati Moiikit-s, hut never 

 ©Ijyeivrd anionic; them ,-iiiy a< tioti like this. I( i^, howt-vei-, < oufiqp- 

 (i-tt Joy l)iHiij)iir, aiui Aeosfa; l)ut whether iVom tlieir own ohserva- 

 litm, oi only fifiu ihe R-|;«;it^ of the native?, U ij, impossible to say. 



