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  Ateles 
  ( 
  !) 
  frontalis 
  Bennett, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  Lond., 
  1831, 
  p. 
  38. 
  

   Ateles 
  ( 
  !) 
  albifrons 
  Schinz, 
  Syn. 
  Mamm., 
  I, 
  1844, 
  p. 
  63. 
  

  

  WHITE-WHISKERED 
  SPIDER 
  MONKEY. 
  

  

  Type 
  locality. 
  "Para, 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  Orinoco," 
  Brazil. 
  Type 
  in 
  

   Paris 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Geogr. 
  Distr. 
  Para; 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Cameta 
  on 
  the 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  

   Tocantins, 
  (Sieber) 
  ; 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  Cupari, 
  a 
  branch 
  of 
  the 
  Tapajos, 
  

   (Bates); 
  Peru, 
  (Tschudi). 
  

  

  Color. 
  Forehead, 
  crown 
  and 
  whiskers, 
  white, 
  all 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  

   body, 
  limbs, 
  hands, 
  feet 
  and 
  tail 
  jet 
  black; 
  under 
  parts 
  black; 
  face 
  

   black 
  except 
  around 
  the 
  eyes 
  which 
  is 
  flesh 
  color. 
  Ex 
  type 
  in 
  Paris 
  

   Museum. 
  

  

  Measurements. 
  Skull 
  : 
  total 
  length, 
  1 
  12 
  ; 
  occipito-nasal 
  length, 
  

   98; 
  zygomatic 
  width, 
  66; 
  intertemporal 
  width, 
  50; 
  palatal 
  length, 
  32; 
  

   breadth 
  of 
  braincase, 
  61 
  ; 
  median 
  length 
  of 
  nasals, 
  14 
  ; 
  length 
  of 
  upper 
  

   molar 
  series, 
  23 
  ; 
  length 
  of 
  mandible, 
  70 
  ; 
  length 
  of 
  lower 
  molar 
  

   series, 
  27. 
  

  

  The 
  type 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  was 
  procured 
  by 
  the 
  Paris 
  Museum 
  from 
  

   the 
  "Cabinet 
  de 
  Lisbonne" 
  in 
  1808. 
  It 
  is 
  not 
  a 
  fully 
  grown 
  animal, 
  and 
  

   the 
  white 
  on 
  the 
  forehead 
  and 
  whiskers 
  is 
  not 
  very 
  distinct 
  as 
  yet, 
  for 
  

   black 
  hairs 
  are 
  mixed 
  with 
  it. 
  

  

  Adult 
  male 
  in 
  Leyden 
  Museum 
  has 
  no 
  white 
  on 
  the 
  crown 
  only 
  

   on 
  forehead. 
  

  

  Bates 
  while 
  staying 
  at 
  the 
  site 
  of 
  Joao 
  Aracu 
  on 
  the 
  Rio 
  Tapajos, 
  

   met 
  with 
  this 
  Monkey. 
  He 
  says, 
  (1. 
  c.) 
  "the 
  most 
  interesting 
  acquisi- 
  

   tion 
  on 
  the 
  place 
  was 
  a 
  large 
  and 
  handsome 
  monkey. 
  I 
  had 
  not 
  before 
  

   met 
  with 
  the 
  white-whiskered 
  Coaita, 
  or 
  Spider 
  Monkey, 
  Ateles 
  

   marginatus. 
  I 
  saw 
  a 
  pair 
  one 
  day 
  in 
  the 
  forest 
  moving 
  slowly 
  along 
  

   the 
  branches 
  of 
  a 
  lofty 
  tree, 
  and 
  shot 
  one 
  of 
  them 
  ; 
  the 
  next 
  day 
  Jose 
  

   Aracu, 
  brought 
  down 
  another, 
  possibly 
  the 
  companion. 
  The 
  species 
  

   is 
  of 
  about 
  the 
  same 
  size 
  as 
  the 
  common 
  black 
  kind 
  of 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  

   given 
  an 
  account 
  in 
  a 
  former 
  chapter. 
  * 
  * 
  * 
  It 
  is 
  never 
  met 
  with 
  

   in 
  the 
  alluvial 
  plains 
  of 
  the 
  Amazons, 
  nor 
  I 
  believe, 
  on 
  the 
  northern 
  

   side 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  river 
  valley, 
  except 
  towards 
  the 
  head 
  waters, 
  near 
  

   the 
  Andes, 
  where 
  Humboldt 
  discovered 
  it 
  on 
  the 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  

   Santiago. 
  I 
  thought 
  the 
  meat 
  the 
  best 
  flavored 
  I 
  ever 
  tasted. 
  It 
  

   resembled 
  beef, 
  but 
  had 
  a 
  richer 
  and 
  sweeter 
  taste. 
  During 
  our 
  stay 
  

   in 
  this 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Cupari, 
  we 
  could 
  get 
  scarcely 
  anything 
  but 
  fish 
  to 
  

   eat, 
  and 
  as 
  this 
  diet 
  ill 
  agreed 
  with 
  me, 
  three 
  successive 
  days 
  reducing 
  

   me 
  to 
  a 
  state 
  of 
  great 
  weakness, 
  I 
  was 
  obliged 
  to 
  make 
  the 
  most 
  of 
  our 
  

   Coaita 
  meat. 
  We 
  smoke-dried 
  the 
  joints 
  instead 
  of 
  salting 
  them; 
  

  

  