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ANIMALS OF EGA. 
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as though it held a ball of snow-white cotton in its 
teeth. The last I shall mention is the Hapale pygmseus, 
one of the most diminutive forms of the monkey order. 
I obtained, near St. Paulo, three full-grown specimens, 
w^hich measured only seven inches in length of body. 
The pretty Lilliputian face is furnished with long brown 
whiskers, which are naturally brushed back over the 
ears. The general colour of the animal is brownish- 
tawny, but the tail is elegantly barred with black. I 
was surprised, on my return to England, to learn that 
the pigmy marmoset was found also in Mexico, no 
other Amazonian monkey being known to wander far 
from the great river plain. Thus the smallest, and 
apparently the feeblest, species of the whole order, is 
one which has, by some means, become the most widely 
dispersed. 
The Jupiird. — A curious animal, known to natural- 
ists as the Kinkajou, but called Jupura by the Indians 
of the Amazons, and considered by them as a kind of 
monkey, may be mentioned in this place. It is the 
Cercoleptes caudivolvus of zoologists, and has been con- 
sidered by some authors as an intermediate form between 
the Lemur family of apes and the plantigrade Carni- 
vora, or Bear family. It has decidedly no close rela- 
tionship to either of the groups of American monkeys, 
having six cutting teeth to each jaw, and long claws 
intead of nails, with extremities of the usual shape of 
paws instead of hands. Its muzzle is conical and 
pointed, like that of many Lemurs of Madagascar ; the 
expression of its countenance, and its habits and actions, 
are also very similar to those of Lemurs. Its tail is 
