. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 104 NATURAL reddish-yellow eyes. They sat gi-avely and silently iiV a group, and altogether presented a strange spectacle. These red-faced Apes belonged to a species called by the Indians Vikarof, which is peculiar to the Ega district, and they had been obtained with great difficulty in the forests which cover the low- lands, near the principal mouth of the Japura, about thirty miles from Ega. It was the first time I had seen this most curious of all the South American Monkeys. I afterwards made a journey ta the district inhabite
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 104 NATURAL reddish-yellow eyes. They sat gi-avely and silently iiV a group, and altogether presented a strange spectacle. These red-faced Apes belonged to a species called by the Indians Vikarof, which is peculiar to the Ega district, and they had been obtained with great difficulty in the forests which cover the low- lands, near the principal mouth of the Japura, about thirty miles from Ega. It was the first time I had seen this most curious of all the South American Monkeys. I afterwards made a journey ta the district inhabited by it, but did not then succeed in obtaining specimens; before leaving the country, however, I acquired two individuals, one of which lived in my house for several weeks. " The Scarlet-faced Monkey lives in forests which are inundated during a great part of the yeau. o/Oii Zooiiji il SocUtij.) It is never known to to the ground ; tlie shortness of its tail is theiefore no sigi\ of terrestrial habits, as it is in the Macaques and Baboons of the Old World. It differs a little from the typical Cebidce in its teeth, the incisors being oblique, and in the upper jaw converging, so as to leave a gap between the outermost and the canine teeth. Like the rest of its family, it differs from the Monkeys of the Old World, and from man, in having an additional gi-inding tooth (pre-molar) on each side of both jaws, making the c6mi)lete set thirty-six, instead of thirty-two, in number. This Uakari {Brachi/unis calviis), also called the White Uakari, from its skin, seems to be found in no other part of America than the district just mentioned, namely, the banks of the Japura, near its principal mouth ; and even there it is colifined, as far as I could learn, to the western side of the river. It lives in small troops amongst the crowns of the lofty trees, living on fruits of various kinds. Hunter's say it is pretty nimble in its motions, but is not much given to leaping, preferri
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