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A DESCRIPTION OF 
of this are daily seen at the Zoological Gardens, where 
there are several of these Monkeys. 
THE OUISTITI AND MARIKINA MONKEYS. 
THE OUISTITI, or MARMOZET, is of small size, not 
measuring more than seven inches ; his tail near eleven ; 
he weighs about six ounces, inhabits the Brazils, and, as 
others, lives entirely on vegetables. His face is almost 
naked, of a swarthy flesh colour, with a white spot above 
the nose : the tail is full of hair, and annulated with ash 
colour and black rings alternately ; its nails are sharp, and 
its fingers like those of a squirrel. 
.The MARIKTNA is a beautiful little animal, not above 
nine inches long, and is sometimes called the Lion Mon- 
key ; his hair is long, soft, and glossy ; his head is round, 
face brown, and his ears hid under the long hairs which 
surround his face, and which are of a bright red, while 
those on his body and tail are of beautiful pale yellow, or 
gold colour. He is very playful, and of a seemingly 
robust temperament, for we have seen one which lived 
five or six years in Paris, without any other particular 
care, than keeping it during the winter in a chamber in 
which there was a fire every day. 
