. The popular natural history . Zoology. 24 THE BLACK YARKE. mentions one of these creatures which was accustomed to catch a pig every iiioniing, and, mounting upon its bacli, to retain its seat during the da/. Lven while the pig was feeding in the savannas its rider remaineu firm, and bestrode its victim with as much pertinacity as Sinbad's old man of the sea. There is some difficulty in settling the species of the Capucins, for their fur is rather variable in tint, in some cases differing so greatly as to look like another species. The general tint of the Capucin is a golden olive, a whiter
. The popular natural history . Zoology. 24 THE BLACK YARKE. mentions one of these creatures which was accustomed to catch a pig every iiioniing, and, mounting upon its bacli, to retain its seat during the da/. Lven while the pig was feeding in the savannas its rider remaineu firm, and bestrode its victim with as much pertinacity as Sinbad's old man of the sea. There is some difficulty in settling the species of the Capucins, for their fur is rather variable in tint, in some cases differing so greatly as to look like another species. The general tint of the Capucin is a golden olive, a whiter fur bordering the face in some individuals, though not in all. There are several monkeys known by the name of Sakis, among which are reckoned the Cuxio, a rather odd little animal, and two other species, which are easily distinguished from each other by the colour of their heads,. BLACK YARKE.—(PUhecia leucocephala.) The first of these animals is the Black Yarke, or White-HEADED Saki, and the other the Cacajao, or Black-headed Saki. The former of these Sakis is a rather elegant creature in form, and of colour more varied than those of the Cuxio. As will be seen from the accom- panying engraving, the head is surrounded with a thick and closely-set fringe of white hair, which is rather short in the male, but long and drooping in the female. The top of the head is of a deep black, and the remainder of the body and tail is covered with very long and rather coarse hair of a blackish- brown. Under the chin and throat the hairs are almost entirely absent, and the skin is of an orange hue. Beside the difference of length in the facial hairs of the female Yarke there are several distinctions between the sexes, which are so decided as to have caused many naturalists to consider the male and female to belong to. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may
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