Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
By 1796
Primary Source Reference:
A Scientific and Descriptive Catalogue of Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, 1796), p. 11
Additional Source Text:
In his Natural History Lecture No. 1 (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University), Peale wrote: "The brown Sajou Monkey, and several others making some small varieties – are commonly called Ring-tailed Monkies. They have Generally the same manners; all lively; agile, full of frolic, Chatter and Grimace. In general they are gregarious, going in vast companies; and however vast the variety of Monies the different species never mix with each other, always keeping a part and in different quarters."
Notes:
On 18 June 1807 the Museum purchased a brown sajou monkey "of a young Man going on a Voyage to La Guira [La Guiara, Venezuela] who promises to endeavor to collect what he can for the Museum -- gave him 5$." Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 23.
The Colombian white-faced capuchin (now Cebus capucinus) was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus (as Simia capucina) in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is the type species for the genus Cebus, which includes all the capuchin monkeys.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Peale's Common Name:
Brown Sajou Monkey
Peale's Scientific Name:
Sajou Brun, Buf; Simia Capucina, Lin.
Current Common Name:
Capuchin monkey
Current Scientific Name
Cebus capucinus
