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Carthagena to Santa Fe de Bogota. The face 

 of the araguato is of a blackish blue, and co- 

 vered with a fine and wrinkled skin ; it's beard 

 is pretty long ; and, notwithstanding the direc- 

 tion of the facial line, the angle of which is only 

 of thirty degrees, the araguato has in the look, 

 and in the expression of the countenance, as 

 much resemblance to man, as the marimonde 

 (s. belzebuth, Bresson) and the capuchin of the 

 Oroonoko (s. chiropotes). Among thousands 

 of araguatoes, which we observed in the pro- 

 vinces of Cumana, Caraccas, and Guiana, we ne- 

 ver saw any change in the reddish brown fur of 

 the back and shoulders, whether we examined 

 individuals, or whole troops. It appeared to 

 me in general, that variety of colours is less fre- 

 quent among monkeys than naturalists think *. 

 They are in particular very rare among those 

 species, that live in society. 



The araguato of Caripe is a new species of 

 the genus stentor, that I have described under 

 the name of alouate ourse, simia ursina. I pre- 

 ferred this name to those I might have derived 

 from the colour of it's fur ; and I was so much 

 the more inclined to this, as a passage of Pho- 

 tius shows, that the Greeks were already ac- 

 quainted with a hairy monkey under the name 

 of arctopithecos. Our araguato differs equally 



* Spix, in the Mem. of the Acad, of Munich, 1815, p. 340. 



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