Chapter VII: The Tufted Capuchin. Cebus Cirrifer

_Le Sajou negre_, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Mamm. Suppl., p. 109, pl. 28.

_Cebus cirrifer_, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 110 (1812); Gray, Cat.
Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 49 (1870).

_Cebus cucullatus_, Spix, Sim. et Vespert., Bras., p. 9, pl. 6 (1823,
juv.).

_Macaco prego_, Bates, Nat. Amazon., i., p. 323 (1863).

_Cebus niger_, Schl., Mus. Pays Bas, vii., p. 202 (1876).

CHARACTERS.--Head round; hairs of crown short and reversed, sometimes elongated into two retrorsal tufts. Fur short, close, and in general colour maroon, turning to black, darker on the under surface; face, chin, sides of forehead and a streak above the eyebrows, yellowish-white.

DISTRIBUTION.--Lower Amazon region.

HABITS.--Little is known of this Monkey beyond what Mr. Bates has told us, viz., that it is a great depredator of the fruit trees. "It is a most impudent thief; it destroys more than it eats by its random, hasty way of plucking and breaking the fruits, and when about to return to the forest, carries away all it can in its hands or under its arms."

VIII. THE CRESTED CAPUCHIN. CEBUS ROBUSTUS.

_Cebus robustus_, Kuhl, Beitr. Zool., p. 35 (1820, ex Neuwied MSS.); Is.
Geoffr., Cat. Méth. Primates, p. 43 (1851); Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit.
Mus., p. 51 (1870).

{213}_Cebus frontatus_, Kuhl, Beitr. Zool., p. 34 (1820); Schl., Mus.
Pays Bas, vii., p. 206 (1876, part).

_Cebus variegatus_, Schl., Mus. Pays Bas, vii., p. 208 (1876, part).

CHARACTERS.--Crown with hairs elongated into a conical central crest. Fur bright red; crown bright red like the back, with a black spot.

DISTRIBUTION.--Brazil.

IX. THE GRIZZLED CAPUCHIN. CEBUS ANNELLATUS.

_Cebus annellatus_, Gray, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 827, fig. 3; id. Cat.
Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 51.

CHARACTERS.--Hair of crown long and erect, forming a central conical crest. Fur brown, reddish-washed, especially on the thighs, the hairs with several pale rings; a streak on the sides of the neck bent down on the front of the shoulders, yellow; belly reddish; crown, temples, whiskers, outer and inner side of the limbs and tail, black; hair of face deep black; crown-spot broad, with a broad line to the forehead and another, on each side, to the whiskers.

DISTRIBUTION.--Brazil.