MONKEYS. 



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its whole body. The face is naked, of a copper color, long and 

 flat. The eyes are sunk in the head, and the ears are like thos« 

 of the human form. The body is very slender, and universally 

 covered with long black hair. Other monkeys have thumbs ; this 

 species has no thumbs, only four fingers on each hand, and hence 

 called the four-fingered monkey. What is very singular, while it 

 has only four fingers on its hands, it has five toes upon its feet. 

 As to its long tail, it is almost as useful as a hand ; being prehensik, 

 that is, having the power of laying hold on objects. This very 

 singular spfecies is found in great numbers in Carthagena, Guiana, 

 Brazil, and Peru. 



The Howler. 



The Howling Monkeys are larger and mere clumsy than 

 the Spider Monkeys, and are chiefly remarkable for the peculiarity 

 from which they derive their name. These animals possess an 

 enlargement in the throat, which renders their cry exceedingly 

 loud and mournfiil. They howl in concert, principally at the 

 rising and setting of the sun ; one monkey begins the cry, which 



