A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 1 (of 2)Forbes, Henry O. (Henry Ogg)
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A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 1 (of 2)
Forbes, Henry O. (Henry Ogg)
Primates
CHARACTERS.--Larger than _Hapale jacchus_; ears naked, external, exposed,
with a band of long hairs across the inner surface of the conch, forming a
short grey tuft; tail ringed, blackish, the hair minutely punctulated with
yellow or red; sides of the head, limbs, and hinder part of body
blackish-brown; face more or less white; back blackish, without indication
of cross-bands.
DISTRIBUTION.--Brazil.
IV. THE WHITE-FOOTED MARMOSET. HAPALE LEUCOPUS.
_Hapale leucopus_, Günth., P. Z. S., 1876, p. 743, pl. lxxii.
CHARACTERS.--Hair of back and sides moderately long, silky, brownish-grey;
nape and occiput darker; face and head covered with short sparse white
hair; ears large, naked, and without tufts; throat greyish-brown; under
side of body and {135}inside of legs rusty-red; fore-arm, hands, and feet
white--the hairs short, blackish or black, with white tips. Head and body,
11½ inches long; tail, 14½ inches. Dorsal and lumbar vertebræ together, 19.
FEMALE.--Similar to the male, but with the hairs of the upper parts
silver-tipped.
DISTRIBUTION.--Medellin, in the province of Antioquia, United States of
Colombia.
HABITS.--Unknown.
V. THE GOLDEN MARMOSET. HAPALE CHRYSOLEUCA.
_Hapale chrysoleucos_, Wagner in Wiegm. Arch., 1842, i., p. 357; id. in
Schreb. Säugeth., Suppl., v., p. 125 (1855); Sclater, P. Z. S., 1869, p.
594.
_Mico sericeus_, Gray, P. Z. S., 1868, p. 256, pl. xxiv.
_Miocella chrysoleucos_, Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 131 (1870).
_Miocella sericeus_, Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus. App., p. 131 (1870).
_Hapale chrysoleuca_, Schl., Mus. Pays Bas, vii., p. 227 (1876).
CHARACTERS.--Ears large, naked, exposed, margined with long white hairs.
General colour white; limbs, under surface, and tail, uniform
greyish-yellow, or reddish-brown in some varieties.
DISTRIBUTION.--Forests of Brazil; vicinity of Borba, on the Rio Madeira.
VI. THE PIGMY MARMOSET. HAPALE PYGMÆA.
_Jacchus pygmæus_, Spix, Sim. et Vespert. Bras., pl. xxiv., fig. 2
(1823).
_Hapale pygmæa_, Wagner in Schreber, Säugeth., v., p. 126 (1855).
Castelnau, Voy. Amér. Sud, pl. 5, figs. 1, 2; Schl., Mus. Pays Bas, vii.,
p. 277 (1876).
{136}_Cibuella pygmæa_, Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 64 (1870).
CHARACTERS.--Face with long brown whiskers, naturally brushed back over the
ears; ears small, with a few scattered hairs over them, but no ear-tufts,
sunk in the long fur of the head. General colour brownish-tawny; tail
ringed with black. The young resemble the adults from their earliest days.
This is the most diminutive Monkey known, and measures only six inches in
length.
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