CHAPTER V. 
AMMALS OF THE NEIGHBOUKHOOD OF EGA. 
Scarlet-faced Monkeys — Parauacu Monkey — Owl-faced Mght-apes — 
Marmosets — Jupura — Comparison of Monkeys of the New World 
with those of the Old — Bats — Birds — Cuvier's Toucan — Curl- 
crested Toucan — Insects — Pendulous Cocoons — Foraging Ants — 
Blind Ants. 
As may have been gathered from the remarks akeady 
made, the neighbourhood of Ega was a fine field for a 
Natural History collector. With the exception of what 
could be learnt from the few specimens brought home, 
after transient visits, by Spix and Martins and the 
Count de Castelnau, whose acquisitions have been depo- 
sited in the public museums of Munich and Paris, very 
little was known in Europe of the animal tenants of 
this region ; the collections that I had the opportunity 
of making and sending home attracted, therefore, con- 
siderable attention. Indeed, the name of my favourite 
village has become quite a household word amongst a 
numerous class of Naturalists, not only in England but 
abroad, in consequence of the very large number of new 
species (upwards of 3000) which they have had to describe, 
with the locality Ega" attached to them. The disco- 
very of new species, however, forms but a small item in 
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