SAPAJO (ante), the name of a group of South American monkeys including the ordinary sapajoes (atetes, q.v.) and other sapajoes, as the weeper or rebus (q.v.). See also Semmt ante. All the sapajoes are exceedingly active, but the fore-hands are not as well developed as in the old-world monkeys. The thumb is longer, brit more on a line with the other fingers; facial angle about 60', They feed chiefly on fruits and insects. One of the most common species is the weeper above mentioned. Humboldt describes another species, rebus albifrons, about the same size as the weeper, with a gray ish-blue face, and a grayish-olive body. It was found in the forests near the cataracts of the Orinoco river. They are often kept as playthings by the Indians. Humboldt saw one catch a pig every morning and ride hint about on the Savanna While lie was feeding. The horned sapajo has a singular tuft of hair on the forehead in the form of a crescent, or a waterman's cap, having the appearance of two horns when viewed in front. It is a native of French Guiana. Cebu* monachus, the large-headed sapajo of the English, has the head covered with short whitish hairs, as if shorn. The sides of the face, breast, and belly are of a yellowish-white; fore-arms, hinder extremities, and tail black; hack mottled with black and light brown. The genus Par/whims includes the following species;
S sari perx077010,4. S. lagens, S. amietus, S, torquatus, motoch, tnelanocheir, and S. infulatus. S. seiurens is the Niniiet seinrece of Linmens; eallttb•ix win rens of Geoffroy ; sagain saimire of the French, saimire of the natives of the Orinoco, and titi of 1 lundm!dt. It Is about the size of a common gray squirrel, being about ten inches in length without the tail,, which measures from a foot to fourteen inches. The body is greenish yellow above, gray on the thighs and arms, and white on the belly. Feet lees awl fore-arms reddish chestnut; muzzle dark; the rest of the face and the ears flesti-c‘40.01; blat:k at tins lip, covered with hair, and not prehensile. but, when the animal is; at rest. wound round the body. It is said to sleep in the sitting posture with its head hanging between its fore-legs. In both extremities the nails tic thumbs are broad. but those of the fingers are more claw-like. There is considerable variation in the classification of this group of donkeys.