30 NATURAL HISTORY IN ANECDOTE. 



The Monkeys' That monkeys are capable of veiy poignant 

 Affection, feeling is shown by the following pathetic story. 

 Mr. Forbes, in his "Oriental Memoirs," says :—" On a shoot- 

 ing party one of my friends killed a female monkey, and 

 carried it to his tent, which was soon surrounded by forty or 

 fifty of the tribe, who made a great noise, and in a menacing 

 posture advanced towards it. On presenting his fowling-piece 

 they retreated, but one stood his ground, chattering and 

 menacing in a furious manner. He at length came close to 

 the tent door, and finding that his threatenings were of no 

 avail, began a lamentable moaning, and by every expression 

 of grief and supplication seemed to beg the body of the 

 deceased. On this it was given to him. He took it up in 

 his arms, eagerly pressed it to his bosom, and carried it off 

 in a sort of triumph to his expecting companions. The artless 

 behaviour of this poor animal wrought so powerfully on the 

 sportsmen that they resolved never more to level a gun at 

 one of the monkey tribe." 

 American To visit the family of the Cebidse we have to 

 Monkeys, cross the Atlantic Ocean, and here we find 

 characteristics with which the monkeys of the East are im- 

 familiar, while we miss others which are common to the 

 monkeys of the old world. In passing from East to West 

 we lose the cheek-pouch characteristic and we find that of 

 the prehensile tail. There are more than eighty species in 

 the family of the Cebidae, divided into ten genera and grouped 

 in four sub-families. The first of the sub-families includes 

 the monkeys with prehensile tails. 



The Capuchin The capuchins belong to the genus Cebus 



Monkey, which includes the majority of American monkeys. 



There are a number of species of which the Brown Capuchin 



(Brazil), the Wheeper Capuchin (Brazil), and the White-throated 



Capuchin (Central America) are the best known. 



The Spider The Spider Monkey is of the genus Ateles and 



Monkeys, jg one of the best known of the Cebidse family. 



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