Distribution.—Bolivia.
IV. THE SMOOTH-HEADED CAPUCHIN. CEBUS MONACHUS.
Cebus monachus, F. Cuv., Hist. Nat. Mammif., livr. xix. (1820).
Le Saï a grosse tête, male, F. Cuvier, loc. cit.
Cebus xanthocephalus, Spix, Sim. et Vespert., Bras., p. 6, pl. 3 (1823); Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 50 (1870).
Cebus cucullatus, Spix, t. c. p. 9, pl. 6 (1823).
Cebus olivaceus, Wagner in Schreb. Säugeth., Suppl., v., p, 87, pl. 8 (1855).
Cebus variegatus, Schl., Mus. Pays Bas, vii., p. 208 (1876).
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Characters.—Fur soft and stiff. Head large and round covered with short recumbent hairs. Face naked, pale round the prominent eyes; muzzle sharp, and of the same colour as that which surrounds the eyes; forehead, temples, throat, chest, under surface of body, sides of jaws, and front of arms, pale orange-yellow; outer side of arms, pale orange, washed with white; fore-arms, rump, hind-limbs, and tail black; a mixture of black and brown, expanding irregularly into spots on the yellow, covering the back, shoulders, and sides of body; a spot on the crown, black; a superciliary ridge forming a band of whiskers extending down the cheeks, and meeting under the chin, also black. Hands naked, violet, almost black.