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ta its, by which they seiz an bd h old n de
branches of trees or any other ubstanee,
iapporting the whole weight of their bo-
dies with urpriming tenacily : even
when desperalely wounded, they are st-
dom imIwn to quit this grasp but with
life. It is very doubtful whether nay of
the Ae A o Baboon species can be traced
a inhabitjnts of the Anm-rictan conlinroft,
though such ihav nccacionally been enu-
xerated in the journals of travellter
 The Fatueallu, Horned Seapaoir, the
 Apella, Brawn Sapijon. aand he Capu-
 cina, or Capuchin Monkey, are the kind.
 nort frequently met with in the wood of
 Ilondursa The lat in v ry common,
 sad iu mild. playful little animal.
 There in one species of monkey also
round iu this part of the world, which
may perhaps have esapetd particular
notice. In size and form it resembles bthe
Apella: and the fewmle, in which the
charcceriistir differee a ppeprs most