SPECIES OP APES. 
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iectly known to anatomists, and published the description of 
them on my return to Europe. 
The araguato, which the Tamanac Indians call aravata ,* 
and the Maypures marave , resembles a young bear.f It is 
three feet long, reckoning from the top of the head (which 
is small and very pyramidal) to the beginning of the prehen- 
sile tail. Its fur is bushy, and of a reddish brown ; the 
breast and belly are covered with fine hair, and not bare a 3 
in the mono Colorado , or alouate roux of Buflbn, which we 
carefully examined in going from Carthagena to Santa Fe 
de Bogota. The face of the araguato is of a blackish blue, 
and is covered with a fine and wrinkled skin: its beard is 
pretty long ; and, notwithstanding the direction of the facial 
line, the angle of which is only thirty degrees, the ara- 
guato has, in the expression of the countenance, as much 
resemblance to man as the marimonde (S. belzebuth, Bres- 
son) and the capuchin of the Orinoco (S. chiropotes). 
Among thousands ot araguatoes which we observed in the 
provinces of Cumana, Caracas, and Guiana, we never saw 
any change in the reddish brown fur of the back and shoul- 
ders, whether we examined individuals or whole troops. It 
appeared to me in general, that variety of colour is less 
frequent among monkeys than naturalists suppose. 
I he araguato ot Caripe is a new species of the genus 
Stentor, which I have above described. It differs equally 
from the ouarine (8. guariba) and the alouate roux (8. seni- 
culus, old man of the woods). Its eye, voice, and gait, 
denote melancholy. I have seen young araguatoes brought 
up in Indian huts. They never play like the little sagoins, 
and their gravity was described with much simplicity by 
Lopez de Gomara, in the beginning of the sixteenth century. 
“The Aranata de los Oimaneses,” says this author, “has 
* la tbe writings of the early Spanish missionaries, this monkey is 
described by the names of aranala and araguato. In both names wo 
easily discover the same root. The v has been transformed into g and n. 
The name of arabata , which Gumilla gives to the howling apes of the 
Lower Orinoco, and which Geoffroy thinks belongs to the S. straminea of 
Great PariA, is the same Tamanac word aravata. This identity of names 
need not surprise us. The language of the Chayma Indians of Cumana 
is one ot the numerous branches of the Tamanac language, and the lattei 
is connected with the C'aribbee language of the Lower Orinoco. 
t Alouate ourse (Simia ursinaj. 
