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80 bone is very large, swelling into a capacious drum, which communicates with the larynx, and imparts a tremendous power and volume to the voice, which they exercise in frightful nocturnal howlings. The head is of a pyramidal form; the tail, long, slender, powerfully prehensile, covered at the tip with a naked, delicate skin: the canines are very large and strong: the facial angle is low, about 30°; which assimilates them to the Baboons of the Old World. They have generally large beards.

ARAGUATO.

Of the seven or eight species known, we select the Araguato (Mycetes ursinus, .) for illus-