Natural History Volume 4; Or, Second Division of the English Encyclopedia (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...nails claw-like, short and bent. Habits nocturnal. P. Satanas is the Cuxio of Humboldt; Cebus Satanas, Hoffm.; Brachyurus Israelita, Spix. Colour entirely dusky black, paler beneath, where the hair becomes very thin, and has a purplish tinge which is visible on the face and hands. Hair of the very bushy tail, which is nearly of the length of the body, long and soft. Total length, including the tail, about 2 feet 9 inches. The hair of the head is thick, and falls over the forehead, and the beard is very much developed. The female is rusty brown. It inhabits the forests of Brazil--Para, on the banks of the Orinoco. It is partial to the fruit of a kind of palm; and it is represented in the act of eating it, by Humboldt, from whose figure ours is taken. P. mdanoccphala. This is the Simia mdanocephala and Cacajao of Humboldt and Bonpland; also called in America Caruiri, Monofeo, Chacuto, Chucuzo, and Mono-Robon. Head very round, naked, and of a dull black colour, its physiognomy reminding the spectator of an old negro; the hair of the head directed forwards; eyes large and sunk, and the eyebrows composed of strong bristles; nose flat, separation of the nostrilB wide; no beard; ears bare and very large. It inhabits the forests which border the Rio Negro and Rio Cassiquiare. All kinds of fruit are acceptable to the voracious Cacajao, which is a weak, very inactive, mild-tempered, and timid animal. It even shrank from some of the small Sapajoiu. It trembled violently at the sight of a crocodile or serpent. When about to seize anything, it stretches forth its arms in the manner indicated in the cut, and holds the object with difficulty, on account of the length and slenderness of the fingers. It lives in troops. of tho natural order Amentaccce of Jus-ieu, but they h...