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Fourth any of the many nests wliicli have come in my way. The 



Journey. 



eggs were always white, without any spots on them. 



Monkies, Probably travellers have erred in asserting that the 

 Monkies of South America throw sticks and fruit at their 

 pursuers. I have had fine opportunities of narrowly 

 watching the different species of monkies which are found 

 in the wilds, betwixt the Amazons and the Oroonoque. I 

 entirely acquit them of acting on the offensive. When the 

 Monkies are in the high trees over your head, the dead 

 branches will now and then fall down upon you, having 

 been broken off as the Monkies pass along them ; but 

 they are never hurled from their hands. 



Monkies, commonly so called, both in the old and new 

 continent, may be classed into three grand divisions ; 

 namely, the Ape, which has no tail whatever ; the 

 Baboon, which has only a short tail ; and the Monkey, 

 which has a long tail. There are no Apes, and no Ba- 

 boons as yet discovered in the new world. Its Monkies 

 may be very well, and very briefly ranged under two 

 heads ; namely, those with hairy and bushy tails ; and 

 those whose tails are bare of hair imderneath, about six 

 inches from the extremity. Those with hairy and bushy 

 tails climb just like the squirrel, and make no use of the 

 tail to help them from branch to branch. Those which 

 have the tail bare underneath towards the end, find it of 

 infinite advantage to them, in their ascent and descent. 

 They apply it to the branch of the tree, as though it 



Three 

 classes of 

 Monkies. 



