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permanent canine teeth. Like that of its congeners, the disposition of this species 
in captivity is mild and affectionate. 
The Slender Sapajou (Cebus pallidus). 
The slender or white sapajou appears to be a rare local species allied to the 
preceding, and inhabiting Bolivia in the neighbourhood of Santa Cruz. It is dis¬ 
tinguished by the smaller size and lighter colour of the dark spot on the crown of 
the head, which is generally brown, and often has a small crest on each side. 
The general colour of the fur is fulvous, or greyish-fulvous, the limbs and tail 
being of a darker brown, and the beard a golden yellow. There is also a nearly 
white variety. Mr. Bates, who alludes to the slender sapajou as the Caiarara Branca, 
heard of its reported existence in the forests of the Tapajos Biver, which flows into 
the Amazon from the Cordillera Goral, on the Bolivian frontier of Brazil. His 
search was, however, in vain; and he was subsequently informed that the species 
only occurred across the watershed in Bolivia. 
Another nearly related monkey, more widely spread in South America, is the 
tufted sapajou (C. cirrifer), in which the general colour of the short fur is black, 
but yellowish-white on the cheeks, chin, sides of the forehead, and a narrow band 
over the eyebrows. Two long, recurved tufts of hair, which often occur on the side 
of the head, give the distinctive name to this monkey. 
A monkey known to the natives of the Lower Amazon valley as the Macaca 
Prego is provisionally identified with this species by Mr. Bates, who speaks of it 
as frequenting the cultivated lands; where it commits wholesale depredations with 
the most unblushing effrontery. The worst of these thefts is that, from the 
hasty and random manner in which the fruit is broken and plucked, the creature 
wastes far more than it can eat. When about to return to its native forest, it 
carries away as much plunder as it can hold in its hands and under its arms. 
The Weeper Sapajou (Cebus capucinus). 
One of the best-known and most common species of the genus is the weeper 
sapajou, or capuchin, of Brazil, represented in the right-hand figure on p. 152. It 
is characterised by the hairs on the crown of the head being short and directed 
evenly backwards, without any tendency to form crests on the sides. The colour of 
the fur is brown, with a golden tinge; the sides of the forehead, cheeks, throat, and 
chest, as well as the front of the shoulders, being pale yellow; while a black, or 
dark brown, line extends from the base of the nose to the back of the neck, 
gradually expanding as it goes backwards. 
These sapajous have a wide range, extending right across Brazil, from Bahia in 
the east to Colombia in the north-west. With the exception of the occasions when 
they descend to drink, their whole life, according to Rengger, is spent in the trees 
of those regions of the forest where there is no underwood. They generally live in 
small parties, numbering from about six to ten or twelve individuals, of which the 
majority are females. From their shy and timid habits they are very difficult to 
observe. Their cry appears to be limited to a kind of low whistle, which serves to 
