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modification of details. Their four hand-like paws, and 
other quadrumanous peculiarities, would indicate their status 
in the animal kingdom, while sundry differences of confor- 
mation would show that they were intended to live under 
conditions that would ill suit their relatives on the other side 
of the globe. Curious it is to observe how the same idea of 
animal life is repeated in various lands and climates, even 
though seas, impassable to creatures unaided by the light of 
civilized reason, intervene. So we have the Simiadz of 
Asia and Africa represented by the Cebidz of America. 
Nor is this wonderful idea restricted exclusively to the man- 
like animals. The lion, tiger and other feline races of the 
Eastern Continent find Western representatives in the 
puma and jaguar, and the same circumstance may be ob- 
served of nearly all the mammalia, the birds, the reptiles, 
the fishes, and, in short, through the entire animal kingdom. 
But of all the monkeys of the New World, and they are 
numbered by hundreds included in several genera and 
species, there are none that deserve more consideration than 
the Capuchin Monkeys. They are active, little animals, lively 
and playful. So similar are all the species in general habits, 
that a description of one will equally serve for any other. 
Their youthfulness and sportive manners make them very 
desirable companions, and hence we frequently find them 
domesticated by the native Indians and European settlers. 
Like other small monkeys, the Capuchin often strikes up a 
friendship for other animals that may happen to live in or 
near its home, the cat being one of the most favored of its 
allies. It is sometimes the case this familiarity is carried so 
far that the cat is turned into a horse by the monkey, who, 
seated upon her back, perambulates the premises. More 
unpromising subjects, we are told, have been pressed into 
similar service. Humboldt cites the case of one that was 
accustomed to catch a pig every morning, and, mounted 
upon its back, was known to retain its seat during the entire 
day. Even when the pig was feeding in the savannas its 
