. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. 62 THE APES AXD MOXKEYS. not graceful, for the hind limbs are the longest. They climb and jump to perfection. On their noc- turnal wanderings they easily succeed in capturing sleeping birds. Insects are also welcome and caught very dexterously. From time to time they utter a hollow, loud sound, which has been likened by. little SQUIRREL MONKEYS. Here are two of these merry and lively creatures perched in a palm tree, the fruit t which one of them holds in hi
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. 62 THE APES AXD MOXKEYS. not graceful, for the hind limbs are the longest. They climb and jump to perfection. On their noc- turnal wanderings they easily succeed in capturing sleeping birds. Insects are also welcome and caught very dexterously. From time to time they utter a hollow, loud sound, which has been likened by. little SQUIRREL MONKEYS. Here are two of these merry and lively creatures perched in a palm tree, the fruit t which one of them holds in his hands. They are exceedingly timid, fleeing at the slightest alarm, and in this picture they are depicted as preparing to take flight from real or fancied danger. {Chrysothrix sciitrea.) travelers to the distant call of a Jaguar. They ex- press anger by a repeated " grr, grr, grr, ; Zfoc flDarmoscts. THIRD FAMILY: Arctopitheci. Several naturalists see in the Marmosets only a variety of the preceding genus and class the two together: but we think that their distinguishing features are marked enough for us to treat them as two distinct groups. The Marmosets have small, narrow claws on all fingers and toes, except the thumb-toes, whose claw is broad and nail-like. They have a round head, a short, flat face, small eyes, large ears, sometimes adorned with tufts, a slim body and short limbs ; claw-like hands, whose thumbs cannot be opposed to the other fingers, although this can be done in the feet; a bushy tail and silky fur. The hands have really become paws in this tribe, and only the feet are similar to those of other Monkeys. Haunts and The Marmosets have a very wide Habits of range, being found in Mexico, Central Marmosets. America and South America to the southern limits of Brazil. They occur in greater variety anil numbers in Brazil, Guiana and Peru, Mexico affording but two kinds. How high they ascend the mountains has not been determined ; Schomburgk saw them
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