PI! I MATES. 



The tail is sometimes used as a prehensile organ. The tinkers and toes 

 have arched or flat nails. The thunil) is sometimes reduced, and is 

 never opposable to the same extent a> 1 he great toe. ( "iiee!< punches 

 and ischial callosities always absent. 



Fain. Pithecidae. A| j ^ with Icnu' hairy tail, \vliich cannot IK- n^-d I'm- pvehen- 

 sion; Pitlirriti S/ittinux HulViiH.. Hra/il; .\ i/rHjiit lin-ii* t r'i r'i nit/hi* \. lluuil'. 

 Granada: ('1iri/xtln-i.r riiin-n I,.. Saimir. Si|iiirrel Monkey, Guiana 

 Gccll'i-.. easl coasl 



FIG. 706. (+orilhi 



i 0, -L '. f. 



, from Vugt and Speclit. 



Fam. Cebidae. Apes with prehensile tail covered with liair or naked at the 

 end. Crbns cajnicinms L.. Sai. ('ainn-liin : Atrlrx panheus I,.. Kuaifa. S|iidt-r- 

 monkey. Brazil ; ^1. Th'hclnitli Gentt'r.. Guinna : Lni/otln-i.i' Hiimlioli/t ii ("icoff.. 

 Peru. Hyci'trs 111-. Howling- Monkeys. M. ii'nji r (icoffr., Brazil : M. nrtiirnhis~L. 



Suborder 3. Catarrhlni. Apes of the Old World, with narrow 

 nasal septum, and approximated, downwardly directed nostrils, with 



thirty-two teeth ( 7 j- ., r,J . (Fig. 70.")). The tail is never pre- 



