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MARMOZET.

_ Tue native country of this elegant little monkey is
South America, where it is found in Brazil and Guiana.
lis fur is long and soft, and is variegated with yellow,
black, and white. The head and throat are dusky black,
and the tail is ringed with dusky black and white.

“Little has been recorded respecting the natural habits
of this beautiful animal, beyond the facts of its congre-
gating in small families, of being active and shy, and
of its subsisting upon insects and eggs, together with
fruits, such as bananas and mangoes, of which it is very
fond.

It is frequently brought to Europe, and has not only
lived several years, but produced young, in the menageries
of France and England. Distrustful, especially towards
those whom if is not accustomed to see, it retires from
observation; and on being touched, utters its peculiar
whistling cry, or becomes angry, and resists the unwel-
come attempt to court its confidence. When undisturbed,
it displays much liveliness, and exerts its activity, leaping
from perch to perch with squirrel-like address; and in
all its actions justifying the expression of “nimble mar-
mozet” used by Shakespeare. Extremely sensitive to
cold, no little of the marmozet’s time is passed in
protecting itself against the changes of temperature, to
which our atmosphere is subject. All the wool, cotton,
or other soft materials with which it is furnished, it will
carry to some convenient corner of its cage, or to an
inner dormitory, and there completely bury itself in the
downy mass, from which it will peep out on a person’s