Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12528

    Bald uakari

    Date
    1884
    Creator
    Joseph Smit (1836 - 1929, Dutch) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 251mm
    width (print): 154mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > monkey
    Description
    Zoological study of the Bald uakari Cacajao calvus, possibly the Red bald-headed uakari subspecies, Cacajao calvus rubicundus (here termed Brachyurus rubicundus). The primate, native to Brazil and Peru in South America, is shown walking along a tree-branch.

    Plate 4 in The collected scientific papers of the late William Alexander Forbes, edited by F.E. Beddard (London, R.H. Porter, 1885). Originally published as ‘On the external characters and anatomy of the red Uakari monkey…’, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1880, pp.627-647.

    Inscribed above ‘Pl. IV. P.Z.S. 1880 Pl.LXI.’ Inscribed below: ‘J.Smit lith. Hanhart imp BRACHYURUS RUBRICUNDUS.’

    William Alexander Forbes (1855-1883) British zoologist travelled to Brazil, and West Africa where he died.
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