Habits.—Keeping together in small troops, running along the main boughs of the loftier trees, climbing perpendicular trunks, but never taking flying leaps.
XIII. LACÉPEDE'S TAMARIN. MIDAS MIDAS.
Simia midas, Linn., Syst. Nat., i., p. 42 (1766).
Simia lacepedii, Fischer, Bull. Soc. Mosc., 1806, p. 23.
Midas rufimanus, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 121 (1812).
Midas ursulus, var. Gray, Cat. Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 68 (1870).
Hapale midas, Schl., Mus. Pays Bas, vii., p. 266 (1876).
Characters.—General colour black; hands and feet golden-yellow or bright rusty-red; ears short, haired. The young males resemble the adults.
Distribution.—Surinam.
XIV. THE NEGRO TAMARIN. MIDAS URSULUS.