IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 
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branches these creatures take their nose in one hand, to prevent its 
being hurt by the branches. 
They are a very pretty color, a bright chestnut red, relieved 
by golden yellow. 
Here is another of the family, rather more interesting than 
the long-nosed gentry. It is the Marmoset, and is found in 
South America. It is not much larger than a squirrel, and is 
quite as graceful and cunning in its ways. It lives on insects and 
fruits, and spends its time in the branches of trees. It is social 
in its ways, being always found in small troops in the woods. 
