THE SaUIRREL M0NK£T. fQ 



The father and mother carried it alternately ; but 

 now and then, when it did not hold properly, they 

 gave it a pretty severe bite. — Few animals are more 

 whimsical than these in their taste and affections, 

 entertaining partiality to soir.e persons, and fre- 

 quently the greatest aversion to others *. 



THE SQUIRREL MONKEY f. 



From the gracefulness of all its movements, the 

 smallness of its size, brilliancy of its colours, and 

 the largeness and vivacity of its eyes, this little ani- 

 mal has uniformly been preferred to all the other 

 Monkies. 



It seems to be the same that Stedman describes in 

 his account of Surinam, as called there by the na- 

 tives, Keesee-keesee, He says, that these creatures 

 are about the size of a Rabbet, and astonishingly 

 nimble. The colour.of their body is reddish, and 

 their tail is black at the extremity, whilst the fore- 

 feet are orange coloured. The head is very round, 

 the face milk-white, with a round black patch in 

 the middle, in which are the mouth and nostrils ; 

 and this disposition of the features gives the animal 

 the appearance of wearing a mask. The eyes are 

 black, and remarkably lively. These Monkies he 

 saw daily passing along the sides of the river, skip- 

 pingfrom tree to tree, regularly following each other, 



* Buffon's Quadrupeds, viii, 194, note. Kerr, i. 77- 

 t Synonyms. — Simia Sciurea, L/h«.-- Orange Monkey. Pcnn.—- 

 Caitaia. Marcgravc. — Saimiri. Biijf'on. — Keesee-kecscc. Stcdinau.-— 

 Squirrel Monkey. S/iu~iv.-—^JS/u~as Gc>>. Zool.pl. 26. 



