SPECIES OP MAMMALIA. 



Humb. Obs. Zool. 325. Coaita a Ventre blanc, Cuvier. Reg. 

 Anim. 1. 113. 



Icon. Geoff. Ann. Mus. vii. ^;. 10. 



Inhabits the banks of the Orinoco, 



61. 4. S. A. Marginatus (The Chuva). Black, with a 

 white ruff round the face. 



Ateles Marginatus, Geoff. Ann. Mus. xiii. 9, xix. 106. 



Chuva, Hiwib. Zool. Obs. 340. 



Icon. Geoff, xiii. p. 9. 



Inhabits the banks of the Santiago and Amazon. 



62. 5. S. A. Arachnoides (the spider monkey). Yellow- 

 gi*ay, fur soft, eye-brows black, long; without any thumb 

 on the anterior hands. 



Ateles arachnoides. Spider Monkey, Edwards, Br own , 

 Geoff, Ann. Mus. xiii. 90. xix. 109. 

 Icon. Geoff. Ann. Mus. xiii. t. 9. 

 Inhabits Brazil ? 



63. 6. S.A. Melanochir (Black-handed Coaita). Gray; 

 back of the head, the extremities of the limbs, and an ob- 

 lique spot, on the outside of each knee of a brown, black, 

 or gray brown. 



Ateles melanochir, Desm. Mamm. 76. 

 Inhabits French Museum. 



64. 7.5^. A. H;)/poxanthus {The Miriki). Yellowish gray, 

 face flesh colour, spotted with gray ; base of the tail and 

 buttocks sometimes yellow, ferruginous, the thumb of the 

 anterior hands merely rudimentary and without a nail. 



Ateles hypoxanthus, Kuhl. MSS. Desm. Mamm. 72. 

 Mi, Riki, and Mono, Brazilians. 

 Inhabits Brazil. Prince Maximilian's Museum. 



65. 8. .S'. A. Subpentadactylus (the Chameck). Black ; (he 

 thumb of the anterior hands very small, and without a nail. 



Ateles pentadactylus, Geoff. An?i. Mus. vii. 267, and xix. 

 105. Ateles subpentadactylus, Desm, Ram. 73. 



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