RARE AND BEAUTIFUL MONKEYS 
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rarer Oriental pheasants ; this mottling is exchanged 
for bars on the tail, and runs up between the 
shoulders to the neck. The beautiful little pink faces 
of these black marmosets, set with bright, jewel-like 
brown eyes, are fringed over the eyebrows and above 
the ears with white fan-like sprays. Their move- 
ments, like their voices and their fur, resemble those 
of birds rather than of monkeys, a resemblance which 
their insect-feeding habits indirectly promote. The 
king of the tribe, the lion marmoset, covered with 
golden-yellow fur, with a mane-like cloak across its 
shoulders, is not among the present inmates of the 
Zoo ; but some years ago a pair of black-eared 
marmosets produced a family, whose welfare was the 
engrossing care of the keeper. These tiny creatures 
were scarcely so large as a mouse, with shorter and 
lighter fur than their parents, but of exquisite pro- 
portions, their baby hands being, it is said, one of the 
most beautiful instances of minute proportion ever 
seen in young animals. For three weeks the marmo- 
set mother nursed her babies, until after one ex- 
ceptionally cold night, father, mother, and infants were 
all found dead. 
As a rule it is fog, not cold, which is fatal to the 
monkeys at the Zoo. In the past year, which was 
exceptionally sunny and free from fog, though with 
many weeks of low temperature, scarcely any rare 
monkeys died. In the season which preceded it 
the fogs killed sixty. But the marmosets are an 
exception to the rule. They can no more endure 
