Under the standard of thrice-hardy Tactus, Thrice-valiant Gustus leads his warlike forces; An endless multitude of desperate apes; Five hundred marmosets and long-tail'd monkeys, All trained to the field, and nimble gunners. PHA.

SUB-DIVISIONS OF THE ORDER PRIMATES Order Sub-orders Families ,- a. PROSIMII (Lemurs and Aye-Ayes) | | ,- i. Hapalidae (Marmosets)

On the other hand, among the marmosets he found the fathers taking as much care of the young as the mothers; if the mother had twins, the father would usually carry one, and sometimes both, around with him.

There we meet the little "marikina," the marmoset with a speckled mask; the "mono gris," the skin of which the Indians use to recover the batteries of their guns; the "sagous," recognizable from their long bunches of hair, and many others, specimens of this numerous family.

An extraordinary animal inhabits these trees, of which the muzzle is that of the fox, while the tail resembles that of a marmoset, and the ears those of a bat.