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NATURAL HISTORY. 
THE CAIArXra. * 
This (according to this author and admirable observer) is the light-brown Caiar&ra, and it is pretty 
generally distributed over the forests of the level country. He saw it frequently on the borders of 
the Upper Amazon, where it was always a treat to watch a flock leaping amongst the trees, for it is 
the most wonderful performer in this line of the whole tribe. The troops consist of thirty or more 
THE HOODED SriDEll MOXKEY. 
individuals, which travel in single file. When the foremost of the flock reaches the outermost branch of 
an unusually lofty tree, he springs forth into the air without a moment’s hesitation, and alights on the* 
dome of yielding foliage belonging to the neighbouring tree — may be, fifty feet beneath — all the rest: 
following the example. They grasp in falling with hands and tail, right themselves in a moment, andl 
then away they go along branch and bough to the next tree. It owes its native name to the dispropor-i 
tionate size of the head to the body. It is very often kept as a pet in the houses of the natives, andl 
Mr. Bates kept one for a year, and he thus writes about it : — “ It accompanied me in my voyages, andl 
became very familiar, coming to me always on wet nights to share my blanket.” It is a most restless: 
* Cebus cilbifrons. 
