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gooseberry with a large stone inside. Owing to their great length of limb and tail, and to their 
muscular vigour, these Spider Monkeys travel far and wide. They are found on both sides of the 
Peruvian Amazon (or Maranon), and on both sides of the Huallaga. They are also common on 
the Rio Tigri, and range along the lower spurs of the Andes, across Ecuador and Columbia, 
over the head waters of the Rio Napa, Rio Japura, and Rio Negro, where it was first discovered. 
They have also been found in Venezuela. Bartlett endeavoured to hunt them on the Rio Tigri, 
a small tributary that runs into the Amazon about four miles above the town of Nanta, on the 
north-western shores of the Peruvian Amazon, but was prevented by the fever and ague of the climate 
and the fears of the Indians. Going into the mountains up the Maranon River, he heard from 
the Indians of the presence of a long-armed Ape — called in their language Maciosuppeli — at the 
distance of three days’ journey. He engaged three Indians, started by way of a forest footpath 
that had been opened by a Catholic priest, to the town of Moyahamba, as part of his penitence. He 
writes : — “ At the end of three days I reached the highest point of the mountains \ here we came 
across a number of the Monkeys in question — about eight or nine. I shot the male that is now in the 
British Museum, and my Indians brought down another with a poison-dart. Having obtained two of 
them I was satisfied that I had found a new species. While, however, I was busily engaged preparing 
the first specimen, my Indians had quietly placed the other on the fire ; and, to my great horror and 
disgust, they had singed the hair off, and thus spoiled the specimen. Of course I was obliged to keep 
the peace, for they had not tasted meat for some days, and the Monkey proved a very dainty dish.” 
THE HOODED SPIDER MONKEY.* 
Probably one of the most extraordinary looking creatures in the world is A teles cucullatus (Gray). 
This very spidery-looking Monkey has a very curious head of liaii*, which looks as if it sadly required 
cutting, for it comes over the forehead, and forms a regular hood, which expands over the eyebrows. 
Everywhere the fur is long and flaccid, and of a blackish silvery-grey colour. The face is reddish, the 
cheeks and lower jaw being nearly bare of hair ; the skin, however, is of a black shade. The skin 
around the orbits and upon the nose is bare, and of a brownish flesli-colour. The body is about 
fourteen inches, and the tail twenty-seven inches in length. The tail is stout near the body, and 
becomes very slim towards the end, the greater part of it, especially the under surface, being extremely 
hairy. The length of the hind feet, the long scraggy limbs, the spare, long body, and its great agility, 
give the Monkey a most extraordinary appearance. Probably it comes from the northern coast of 
Columbia. 
There are many species of A teles, and they range on the Pacific side of Guatemala, on the west 
side of the Andes, and in the forests watered by the great rivers. 
THE SAJOUS, OR CAPUCHINS, f 
If attention has been paid to these descriptions of the groups of American Monkeys already 
described, it will have become evident that they can readily be distinguished one from another. Thus, 
the Lagothrix has a round head without a beard, a prehensile tail, with the hair off it underneath, 
not far from the tip, and its thumbs are large ; the Spider Monkeys, or Ateles, have small heads, the 
same kind of tail, and their thumbs are either defective or wanting altogether ; and the Mycetes, or 
Howlers, have high heads and beards, thumbs, the same kind of tail, and the howling apparatus in 
perfection. Now, the next (and last) genus of prehensile-tailed Monkeys differs from all these in not 
having the naked spot on the under side of the tail, in having a thicker tail, and a gentle whistling 
voice. These are the little “ masters of the woods,” according to Azara, and should be called “ Cai” 
(the “ C” is soft), which has been altered to Sajou by the extraordinary talent which the French have 
of confounding spelling and sounds in other languages. Buffon divides the Monkeys noticed above 
into the Scipqjous and the Sagohis , the larger kinds belonging to the first, and those about to be noticed 
to the last. He modified, he says, the words Cayonason and Cagoni , their 0 being pronounced as S. 
# Aides cucullatus. 
f Cebus. 
