The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . h hair ; and their ears are generally tufted. [Seven or eight species are tolerably established, some of which are subject to vary. These pretty little creaturesare gregarious, and vei7 indiscriminate feeders ; are indeed rapacious, and in confinement will eagerly seize andprey on gold fishes, &c. They produce two or three young at a birth.] M. Geoffroy designates as Tamarins (Midas),—Those species which have inferior trenchant incisors placed in an almost st
The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . h hair ; and their ears are generally tufted. [Seven or eight species are tolerably established, some of which are subject to vary. These pretty little creaturesare gregarious, and vei7 indiscriminate feeders ; are indeed rapacious, and in confinement will eagerly seize andprey on gold fishes, &c. They produce two or three young at a birth.] M. Geoffroy designates as Tamarins (Midas),—Those species which have inferior trenchant incisors placed in an almost straight line, and shorterthan the canines. Their taU is also more slender, and not annulated. [These difler more than the others, and are also somewhat variable in colour. At least seven or eight have beenascertained, of which the Pinche (.Sim. adipus, Lin.), is the longest known. Those curious little beings, theSilky Tamarin {M. rosalia), and the Leoncito, or Lion Moiikct/ of Humboldt (.1/. ieotiinus), fall under this division. first rnn^je in the ilivisioii DrachifiiTm, Spix, (providctl this be scparabli-.) wliicli.
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