II. THE WHITE-CHEEKED CAPUCHIN. CEBUS LUNATUS.

_Cebus lunatus_ (Sajou cornu), male; F. Cuv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., pl. 70

(nec Kuhl).

_Cebus vellerosus_, Is. Geoffr., Cat. Méth. Primates, p. 44 (1851, pt.).

_Cebus leucogenys_, Gray, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 824, pl. xlv.; id. Cat.

Monkeys Brit. Mus., p. 48 (1870).

_Cebus frontatus_, Schl., Mus. Pays Bas, vii., p. 206 (1876).

CHARACTERS.--Fur soft, elongate, silky, with thick under-fur. Hair on front

of head elongate and reflexed, forming across the brow a short crest,

higher above each eye; hair on top of head lying flat; that on cheeks short

and adpressed; base of nose large, and corrugated longitudinally; toes

long; tail longer than in other species; under surface of body less haired.

General colour silky brown, almost black on the head and limbs, paler on

the shoulders and arms; the whiskers forming a white, or sometimes pale

yellow, band, bordering the cheeks from opposite the eyes to the chin. Face

and hands naked, violet; skin below the hair of the same colour.

The hair of the body is longer in winter than in spring; but the crests, or

"horns," and the white whiskers appear only when the animal is fully adult.

DISTRIBUTION.--Brazil.

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