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javali, or native boar with external recurved 

 tusks*. I nevev saw one, but this animal is 

 mentioned in the works of the Spanish mission- 

 aries, a source too much neglected by zoologists, 

 though they contain, amid the grossest exagera- 

 tions, very curious local observations. 



Among the monkeys, which we saw at the 

 mission of the Atures, we found one new species, 

 of the tribe of sais and sajous, which the Creoles 

 vulgarly call machis. It is the ouavapavi with 

 gray hair and a bluish face. It has the orbits 

 of the eyes, and forehead, as white as snow, 

 which at first sight distinguish it from the simia 

 capucina, the simia apella, the simia trepida, and 

 the other weeping monkeys hitherto so confu- 

 sedly described-f-. This little animal is as gentle 

 as it is ugly. Every day in the courtyard of the 

 missionary it seized a pig, upon which it re- 

 mained from morning till night, traversing the 

 savannahs. We have also seen it upon the back 



* Mr. Cortes asserts, that he killed on the borders of the 

 Magdalena a wild boar, puerco mama, with recurved tusks, 

 and longitudinal stripes on the back. Are there hogs 

 from Europe in this country, that have become wild ? 



+ See my Monography of the Oroonoko monkeys, in the 

 Rec. Obs. Zoologic, vol. i, p. 324 and 356. The ouavapavi 

 (a word of the Guareken language) is my simia albifrons, ex 

 albo cinerascens, vertice nigro, facie caerulea, fronte et orbi- 

 tis niveis, cruribus et brachiis fuscescentibus. 



