Ql'ADRl'MANA. 



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All are restlessly active, and extremely rapid in their movements; also remarkably short-tempered, bristling 

 with fury when enraged, and patting on a most formidable appearance, considering their size. They are ~>i 

 cleanly, that any appearance of dirt about their habitations causes them to. fret; and are exceedingly sensitive of 

 damp: but, if duly attended to, are easily kept in captivity. 



The Plattrrhini were very properly ranged by Buffon in two great natural divisions, name! by 

 him Safajous and Sagouins ; to the latter of which the Ouistitis are strictly referable, to judge from 

 the aggregate of their conformation. We cannot but think that Cuvier has, in this rare instance, 

 attached undue importance to the number of molar teeth, in so decidedly separating the Ouistitis from 

 the other small American Quadrumana.~\ 



The Lemurs, (Lemur, Linn.), 

 [Strepsirriiini, Geo/.'], — 



Comprehend, according to Linnaeus, all the Quadrumana which have [supposed] incisors in either 

 jaw differing in number from four, or at least otherwise directed than in the Monkeys. This 



negative character could not fail to em- 

 brace very different beings, while it did 

 not unite those which should range to- 

 gether. M. Geoffroy lias established 

 several better characterized divisions in 

 tl-'s genus. The four thumbs of these 

 animals are well developed and op; 

 able, and the first hind linger is armed 

 with a raised and pointed claw (tig. 1 , 

 all the other nails being flat. Their cover- 

 ing is woolly; and their teeth begin to 

 exhibit sharp tubercles, catching in each 

 other, as in the Insect icora. [These 

 animals have been described to differ 

 from all other Mammalia in the circum- 

 stance of their upper canines locking 

 outside or before the lower: but we have 

 just discovered that their true inferior canines have always hitherto been mistaken for ad- 

 ditional incisors, which they resemble in general aspect and direction ; while the succeeding 

 tooth, which from its size and appearance has Item supposed to be the lower canine, is in 

 reality the first false molar; (as will readily appear on opposing the successive teeth of both 

 jaws). In the genus Trirsius, how ever, the true canine assumes more of its ordinary form; 

 and the same is observable of the first false molar in Microcebus* The grinding motion of 

 the lower jaw is exceedingly reduced.] 



Tin: LEMURS, properly so called (Lemur, as restricted [Prosimia, Briss.]), — 

 Have six [four] lower incisors, compressed, and slanting forwards [as are also the canines] ; four in 

 the upper jaw, which are straight, those intermediate being separated from each other; trenchant 

 [upper] canines; six molars on each side above, and six below fi the ears small. They are very 

 nimble animals, and have been designated Fox-nosed Monkeys, from their pointed heads. They 

 subsist on fruits. Their species are very numerous, and inhabit only the island of Madagascar, wl 

 thej appear to replace tin Monkey-tribe, which, it is said, do not exist there. They differ but slightly 

 among themselves, except in colour. 



[Thirteen, at least, have been ascertained definitively; one of the longest known of which is thi kfai •• of 

 It; i linn, in- the Ring-tailed Lemur (£>. eatia, Lin.), which is ash-grey, the tail annulated black and white. « others 

 are black, or rufous, with sometimes white; and One beautiful species, the Ruffed Lemur i/.. wta* ico, Lin.), is 



Fig. 4. — Hand nnd Foot of Lemur 



• in approach to thU deviation on the pert of the Inferior cnaloo le | t The Utl ■. but, t» lutcndrd 



i le in llic iilult Mandrill.— Ko. Ku. 



