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THE LARGER MONKEYS. 
Though most of the best specimens of monkey 
beauty belong to the New World, the richness and 
variety of the colouring of one or two of the African 
species is not surpassed by that of any American 
species. Yet the ornamental value of their skins 
is little known, even among those professionally 
engaged in the fur trade. In the catalogues of the 
great sales at Sir Charles Lampson’s in College Street, 
there is always a column headed “ various,” to which 
the visitor, tired with the enumeration of the regular 
commercial skins by the hundred thousand, always 
turns with a sense of curiosity. Most of these are 
“ dressed ” skins, of exceptional rarity and beauty, 
sold separately, and not in “ lots,” like the pelts of 
musquash, beaver, and bear, and exhibited in a room 
by themselves instead of by sample. At the last of 
these great sales which the writer attended, the 
collection in the room set apart for this purpose was 
exceptionally interesting, and the buyer of one of the 
great wholesale fur dealers marked several of the lots 
for purchase. A row of fourteen skins of the northern 
