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which place their hands and feet, or the former au any rate, on the 

 level of paws. These outward features correspond to their mental 

 endowments. Monkeyhood, we may say, has not reached its full 

 development in the family of marmosets. Not only in form and 

 colour, but in their carriage, in their whole character and behav- 



Fig. 43.— Common Marmoset or Ouistiti (Bapale Jaechus). 



iour, even in their voice, they remind us of the rodents. They 

 seldom sit upright, and at the best are rather like squirrels than 

 like other monkeys; they prefer to stand on all-fours with the 

 body horizontal; they do not climb easily and freely, with hands 

 and feet clasping the branch, like others of their order, but, stick- 

 ing their claws into it, they press close to it and glide along, not 



