CEBIDA 717 
and are probably only differently coloured individuals of one and 
the same species. I sent home a very large male of one of these 
kinds, which measured 27 inches in length of trunk, the tail being 
26 inches long ; it was the largest monkey I saw in America, with 
the exception of a black Howler, whose body was 28 inches in 
height. The skin of the face in the Barrigudo is black and 
wrinkled, the forehead is low, with the eyebrows projecting. . . . 
In the forests the Barrigudo is not a very active animal; it lives 
exclusively on fruits, and is much persecuted by the Indians on 
Fic. 342.—Humboldt’s Lagothrix (Lagothriz humboldti). From Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, pl. 31. 
account of the excellence of its flesh as food.” Five species are 
usually recognised, viz. L. canus, L. humboldti, L. castelnam, L. 
ischudiit, and L. geoffroyt. 
Cebus.1\—Form rather robust ; limbs moderate ; fur not woolly ; 
pollex well developed ; tail not naked beneath distally. 
This, the typical, genus includes the Sapajous or Capuchins 
(Fig. 343), which are so commonly seen in this country in captivity, 
being the favourite Monkeys of itinerant musicians. They are 
smaller and stouter in build than the Spider Monkeys, from which 
they are readily distinguished by the well-developed pollex, and 
the absence of a naked under surface to the extremity of the tail. 
1 Erxleben, Syst. Regne Animal, p. 44 (1777). 
