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Show 224 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON ANIMALS IN THE MENAGERIE. [Mar. 7, On the 30th of June, 1865, we purchased of a dealer in Liverpool the only example I have ever met with of this very singular species- easily known from every other member of the genus I a m acquainted with by the long thin hairs of the body, and in particular of the head, as described by Dr. Gray. Our specimen was an adult male. The animal died in the August following, and Dr. Murie contributed to the ' Proceedings' some further notes on its external appearance, and an account of its anatomy. Dr. Murie has given accurate measurements of the typical specimen (which are altogether omitted in Dr. Gray's description), and also describes the colour of the face and adjoining parts, but has omitted to note that there is a small tubercle representing the thumb in this species. The accompanying drawing (Plate XIV.), which may serve to render this Spider Monkey more easily recognizable, has been taken by Mr. Smit from the typical specimen, which is now in the British Museum. It is much to be regretted that we do not know the true patria of this Ateles; but I have some reason to suppose it m a y be from the northern coast of Columbia, as I am told that a black Spider Monkey with long hair over its head is occasionally brought for sale into Cartagena. 6. ATELES VARIEGATUS, Wagner. In July last we received from the Hon. A . Gordon a young female Spider Monkey, which I was at first inclined to refer to A. belzebuth of Geoffroy*, but which having died, and having been acquired by the British Museum, was described by Dr. Gray as the female of his A. bartletti-^. In m y remarks on this specimen (P. Z. S. 1870, p. 668, and Ann. N. H . ser. 4, vol. vi. p. 472) I have given m y seasons for considering __. bartletti, Gray, to be a synonym of A. variegatus, Wagner. In his reply to m y remarks (Ann. N . II. ser. 4, vol. vi. p. 18) Dr. Gray says that he does "not think I have proved m y case." In order to do this, therefore, more completely, I accepted the kind offer of Herr. v. Pelzeln to send m e one of the typical specimens of A. variegatus in exchange from the Imperial Cabinet of Vienna, and thus convinced myself and other persons interested in the question that m y views were correct£. * Cf. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 668. t Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. vi. p. 428. j Seejintea, p. 39. As regards some remarks of Dr. Gray (Ann. Nat. Hist. Feb. 1871) on the notice of the exhibition of this specimen as given in our printed minutes, I may be permitted to observe:-(1) What I exhibited was not the typical specimen of A. variegatus, but a typical specimen, i. e. one of Nat-terer's original examples, of which he altogether obtained five. (2) This was received by me in exchange from the Imperial Cabinet of Vienna, not loaned lo me by the Museum of Munich, as Dr. Gray assumes, I. c. p. 1G4. (3) The name variegatus was not published only in a " miserable compilation," as Dr Gray calls Reichenbach's work (Ann. Nat. Hist. Jan. 1871, p. LS), but, as shown by the synonyms given below, in the ' Transactions' of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and in other well-known works. |