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But Azara says that the real words are Caigonazon and Cai, they being pronounced as written, and 
the first means Great Cai, and the last Cai, or Cay, simply Monkey. Sajous is a derivation from 
Cagoni, and animals properly included by it constitute the genus Cebus , but to add to the confusion, 
Mr. Wallace calls them “ Sapajous.” 
They are the small, active, red-faced, round-headed, long- tailed American Monkeys, which curl the 
end of the tail downwards, and yet use it to hold on by. They are smaller and more delicate than 
THE BLACK AND VARIEGATED SPIDER MONKEYS. 
(From tlie Proceedings of the Zoological Society.) 
those already described ; their teeth are smaller, and they have not large canines like the Mycetes. 
Vrolik, in noticing the gentle expression of their face, says their movements are graceful and gay, and 
| their “manners a mixture of sweetness, cleverness, agility, and lubricity ! ” 
There is abundant proof to be obtained of their agility and intelligence, and, unfortunately for 
them, their gifts are valuable in the eyes of Monkey-trainers, and many a little pug, dressed up as a 
Highlander or soldier, who does tricks in the streets for the benefit of his master, once had a gay life 
of “ lubricity ” in the virgin forests of the Amazon. 
Bates, in his interesting work, “ The Naturalist on the Amazon,” refers especially to the following 
species. 
