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Section B. Tail short. Baboons. 
sylvatica, (wood baboon.) face, hands and feet, 
naked, black, smooth; nails white. Body 3 
feet high ; tail 3 inches long. 
See. €. Tail not prehensile ; cheecks pouched ; 
haunches naked. Monkies. 
cana, (spotted monkey,) bearded ; forehead pro- 
jecting ; head pointed. 
Sec. D. Tails prehensile ; cheeks not pouched ; 
haunches covered. Sapajous, or modest mon- 
kies. | 
capucina, (capucin monkey.) no beard ;_ skin 
brown; bair and limbs black; tail shaggy. 
Very docile. Size of a cat. 
sciurea, (orange monkey,) no beard, greenish-grey ; 
hind part of the head prominent; nails of the 
four smaller toes angalate; haunches covered. 
Very beautiful and graceful in its movements. 
Always look persons in the face who speak te 
it. 
Sec. EK. fails not prehensile ; cheeks not pouch- 
ed; haunekes covered. Sagoins, or playing 
monkies. | 
rosaha, (siik monkey,) beardless ; head hairy ; 
outer edge of face and feet red ; nails subulate; 
body yellowisii-wiite. Body 8 inches long, 
tail 13. | 
See MS. P. 
