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ANIMALS OF EGA. 
Chap. Y. 
the features up to the roots of the hair on the forehead 
and temples, and down to the neck, includmg the 
flabby cheeks which hang down below the jaws. The 
animal, in this condition, looks at a short distance as 
though some one had laid a thick coat of red paint on 
its countenance. The death of my pet was slow ; during 
the last twenty-four hours it lay prostrate, breathing 
quickly, its chest strongly heaving ; the colour of its face 
became gradually paler, but was still red when it expired. 
As the hue did not quite disappear until two or three 
hours after the animal was quite dead, I judged that it 
was not exclusively due to the blood, but partly to a 
pigment beneath the skin which would probably retain 
its colour a short time after the circulation had ceased. 
After seeing much of the morose disposition of the 
Uakari, I was not a little surprised one day at a friend's 
house to find an extremely lively and familiar individual 
of this species. It ran from an inner chamber straight 
towards me after I had sat down on a chair, climbed 
my legs and nestled in my lap, turning round and 
looking up with the usual monkey's grin, after it had 
made itself comfortable. It was a young animal which 
had been taken when its mother was shot with a 
poisoned arrow ; its teeth were incomplete, and the face 
was pale and mottled, the glowing scarlet hue not 
supervening in these animals before mature age ; it had 
also a few long black hairs on the eyebrows and lips. 
The frisky little fellow had been reared in the house 
amongst the children, and allowed to run about freely, 
and take its meals with the rest of the household. 
There are few animals which the Brazilians of these 
