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SQUIRREL MONKEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 748 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SQUIRREL
SQUIRREL (Fr. ecureuil)

SQUIRREL See also:
MONKEY
MONKEY , the See also:

ENGLISH

English name of a small See also:

GOLDEN

golden-haired See also:

South See also:

AMERICAN

American monkey, commonly known as Chrysothrix sciurea, and also applied to the two other members of the same genus, whose collective range extends from See also:

Costa Rica to See also:

BOLIVIA

Bolivia and See also:

Brazil. It has, however, been proposed to See also:

TRANSFER (from Lat. transferre, to bear across, carry over)

transfer the name Chrysothrix to the marmosets of the genus Hapale, to which it is stated to have been originally applied, and to replace it by Saimiris. The squirrel-monkeys were formerly classed with the douroucoulis (see DouRoucouLl), but, on See also:

account of their See also:

BRAIN (A.S. braegen)

brain-structure, they have been transferred to the Cebinae (see CAPUCHIN-MONKEY), from the other members of which they differ by their practically non-prehensile tails and smaller See also:

SIZE

size, while they are further distinguished by their comparatively large eyes and the backward prolongation of the hinder See also:

PART

part of the See also:

head. They are exceedingly See also:

PRETTY

pretty little monkeys. (See See also:

PRIMATES.) (R.

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