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NATURAL HISTORY. 



Family II. Siniiacke. (Lat. S'uriia, an ape Ape kind.) 

 TROGLODYTES. (Gr. rpw/A??, a hole ; 6vu, to creep.) 



Niger (Lat. black), the Chimpansee. 



THE section Gtuadrumana includes the apes, baboons, and 

 monkeys. The name of Q,uadrumana is given to these animals 

 because, in addition to two hands like those of man, their feet 

 are also formed like hands, and are capable of grasping the 

 branches among which most monkeys pass their lives. 



Apes are placed at the head of the Quadrumana because 

 their instinct is mostly superior to that of the baboons and 

 monkeys, of whom the former are usually sullen and ferocious, 

 and the latter volatile and mischievous. 



The Chimpansee and the Orang-outan have been con- 

 founded together by the older naturalists, whose error has 

 been repeated even to the present time. That they are really 



