Breeding of “Hapale jacchus” in Captivity

Abstract

MR, MOSELEY'S Marmosets (NATURE, vol. xxviii. p. 572) are by no means the first instance in Europe, or even in England. Edwards, more than a hundred years ago, recorded a case in Portugal; and Frederic Cuvier had three born in Paris in 1819 (vide Sir William Jardine's Natural Library—Mammalia, vol. i.). A relative of mine brought a pair of this species from Pernambuco in 1863, and kept them in his kitchen at Surbiton. In April, 1865, I was shown two living young ones which had been born a few days before. In the Proc. Zool, Soc. for 1835, births of marmosets of an allied species (H. penicillatus) have been chronicled as occurring in this country.