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ANIMALS OF EGA. 
Chap. Y. 
and flexible tails, which are furnished underneath with 
a naked palm like a hand, for grasping. The Barrigudos, 
however, are very bulky animals, whilst the spider 
monkeys are remarkable for the slenderness of their 
bodies and limbs. I obtained specimens of what have 
been considered two species, one (L. olivaceus of Spix T) 
having the head clothed with gray, the other (L. Hum- 
boldtii) with black fur. They both live together in the 
same places, and are probably only differently-coloured 
individuals of one and the same species. I sent home a 
very large male of one of these kinds, which measured 
twenty-seven inches in length of trunk, the tail being 
twenty-six inches long ; it was the largest monkey I saw 
in America, with the exception of a black Howler, whose 
body was twenty-eight inches in height. The skin of 
the face in the Barrigudo is black and wrinkled, the 
forehead is low, with the eye -brows projecting, and, in 
short, the features altogether resemble in a striking 
manner those of an old negro. In the forests, the 
Barrigudo is not a very active animal ; it lives exclu- 
sively on fruits, and is much persecuted by the India,ns, 
on account of the excellence of its flesh as food. From 
information given me by a collector of birds and mam- 
mals, whom I employed, and who resided a long time 
amongst the Tucuna Indians, near Tabatinga, I calcu- 
lated that one horde of this tribe, 200 in number, 
destroyed 1200 of these monkeys annually for food. 
The species is very numerous in the forests of the 
higher lands, but, owing to long persecution, it is 
now seldom seen in the neighbourhood of the larger 
villages. It is not found at all on the Lower Amazons. 
