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The Living Animals of the World 



putting their heads almost upside-down in 

 efforts at acute criticism at low and musical 

 passages. Every change of note was marked 

 by some alteration of expression in the faces 

 of the excited little monkeys, and a series of 

 discordant notes roused them to a passion 

 of rage." At the same time a big baboon, 

 chained up near, evidently disliked it. He 

 walked off in the opposite direction to the 

 farthest limits of his chain. 



The New World Monkeys. 



IMention of the Capuchins takes us to 

 the whole group of the New World Slonkeys. 

 Nearly all of these live in the tropical forests 

 of Brazil, Guiana, Venezuela, and jNIexico. 

 They are all different from the Old World 

 monkeys, and many are far more beautiful. 

 The most attractive of the hardier kinds 

 are the Capuchins; but there are many 

 kinds of rare and delicate little monkeys 

 more beautiful than any squirrel, which 

 would make the most delightful pets in the 

 world, if they were not so delicate. To 

 try to describe the Old World monkeys in 

 separate gi'oups from end to end is rather a 

 hopeless task. But the American monkeys 

 are more manageable by the puzzled amateur. 

 Jlost of them have a broad and marked 

 division between the nostrils, which are not mere slits close together, but like the nostrils 

 of men. They also have Iniman-looking rounded heads. Their noses are of the "cogitative" 



order, instead of being 



snouts or snubs with narrow 



openings in tliem ; and the 



whole face is in many ways 



human and intelligent. The 



lIowLEK Monkeys, which 



utter the most hideous 



rounds ever heard in the 



forests, and the SrioER 



Monkeys are the largest. 



The latter have the most 



wonderfully developed 



^JijjRdi^f' limbs and tails for catching 



mm /#!» j^j^jj climbing of any living 



animals. As highly special- 

 ised creatures are always 



interesting, visitors to any 



zoological garden will find 



it worth while to watch a 



spider monkey climbing. 



I'Lvl'j by A. 6', RudLand <i: Sons. 



HEAD OF HALE MANDRILL. 



This is one of tlie most hideous of living animals. TLe natives of 

 West Africa liold it in greater dislilte even tlian the large carnivora, fruni 

 the niidcLief ^vliich it does to their crops. 



Fhoto I 



I L 31 II I, r Z ^ , 1^ II Fi hky. 

 BROWN CAPUCHIN. 

 The most intelligent of tlie common monlieys 

 of the New World. It uses many sounds to 

 express emotions, and perhaps desires. 





rhoto by L. Midland, F.Z.S., Aorth Finchley. 



DRILL. 



Only less ugly th.an the Mandrill. Its habits ai 

 the same. 



