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lect the same color, nor does the same monkey 

 invariably select the same color at different times ; 

 but I think that generally bright green is a favor- 

 ite color with the Capuchins, and their second 

 choice is white. In a few cases white seemed 

 to be their preference. I have sometimes used 

 paper wads of various colors, or bits of candy of 

 the same flavor rolled in various-colored papers. 

 They seemed to choose the same colors in select- 

 ing their toys. I have sometimes used arti- 

 ficial flowers, and find that as a rule they will 

 select a flower having many green leaves about 

 it. It may be that they associate this color with 

 some green food which they are fond of, and 

 consequently that they are influenced by this in 

 selecting other things. I kept a cup for a mon- 

 key to drink milk from, on the sides of which 

 were some brilliant flowers and green leaves, and 

 she would frequently quit drinking the milk to 

 play with the flowers on the cup, and seemed 

 never able to understand why she could not 

 get hold of them. In one test I had a board 

 about two feet long, and laid a few pieces of white 

 and pink candies in four places on it. The mon- 

 key took the white from each pile before touch- 

 ing the pink ; except in one instance it took the 



