Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12530

    Golden-backed uakari

    Date
    1884
    Creator
    Joseph Smit (1836 - 1929, Dutch) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 154mm
    width (print): 251mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Zoological study showing the Golden-backed uakari, or Black-headed uakari Cacajao melanocephalus (here termed Brachyurus melanocephalus). The primate, native to the Amazon rainforest in South America, is shown walking on the forest floor near a fallen tree.

    Plate 6 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. VI. P.Z.S. 1880 Pl.LXIII.’ and below: ‘J.Smit lith. Hanhart imp. BRACHYURUS MELANOCEPHALUS.’

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