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The general colour above is greyish brown, inclining 

 to olive, the chin being furnished with a sharp-pointed 

 beard of a pale orange colour : the cheeks are naked, 

 deeply furrowed, and of a bright violet-blue • this 

 colour forms a striking contrast to the nose, which, in 

 adult males, becomes of a bright scarlet, particularly 

 towards the end : the naked, callous patch upon the 

 buttocks is also of a beautiful violet. The tail is very 

 short. 



The Bear-like Howling Monkey. 



Mycetus Ursinus, /Z%er. Simla Ursina, Araguato, Humboldt. 

 Mycetes Ursinus, Desmarest. Stentor Stramineus, Geoffroy 

 St. Hillaire. 



Although the tropical forests of the New World, 

 are destitute of those disgusting baboons which abound 

 in those of Western Africa, yet they are not without a 

 peculiar tribe of the same family which are equally ter- 

 rific, if not in appearance, at least in the horrid tones of 

 their voices. Hence this division of the family have 

 been called the Howling apes. There are several spe- 

 cies to which this name has been indiscriminately ap- 

 plied ; but that which we shall more particularly notice, 

 is the Araguato of Humboldt, — an animal which has 

 been sometimes brought to Europe, and of whose extra- 

 ordinary powers of voice this celebrated traveller thus 

 writes : — " After having landed at Cumana, in the 

 province of New Andalusia, we saw for the first time 

 the araguato, or howling monkeys, in the journey 

 which we made to the mountains of Cacola and the 

 caverns of Guacharo. Although the convent of Caripe 

 is situated in a valley, the bottom of which is elevated 

 more than 4000 toises above the level of the sea, and 

 the neighbourhood is consequently very cold, the sur- 

 rounding forests abound in howling monkeys, whose 

 melancholy note is heard nearly two miles off, especially 

 when the weather is open." 



The economy of the howling monkeys presents so 

 many interesting peculiarities, and the species appear to 

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