viii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VII. 

 BABOONS AND UA.CAQVES.—Co>iHntud. 

 Genus Macacus (63) — The Common Macaque (65) — The Bonnet Ape (67) — The Rhesus or 

 Bunder (68) — The Lapander (103) — The Wanderoo (71) — The Magots (72) — The Gibraltar Mon- 

 keys (72) — Genus Cynopithecus (74) — The Black Baboon-ape or Celebes (74). 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 THE NEW WORLD MONKEYS. 

 The American Monkeys or Cebida; (75) — The Genus Cebus or Sapajou (77) — The Genus 

 Lagothrix (80)— The Spider Monkeys (81) — The Genera Ateles and Eriodes (87)— The Howling 

 Monkeys (85)— The Sakis (89)— The Night Monkeys (92)— The Tee-tees (94). 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE MARMOSETS. 

 The Marmosets or Ouistitis (95) — The Family Hap.ilidae (97) — The Genus Hapale (97) — 

 The Silky Marmoset (98)— The Pinche (98)— The Dwarf Marmoset (98)— The Genus Midas (99) 

 The Sagouins (99). 



CHAPTER X. 

 THE LEMUROIDEA. 

 The Indris (102) — The Lemurs (104) — The Ruffed Lemur (105) — The Cat Lemur (106I — The 

 Hapalemur (107) — The Cheirogaleus (io8) — The Loris (no) — The Tarsier Spectre (114) — The 

 Aye-aye (115). 



CHEIROPTERA. 



CHAPTER I. 

 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS. 

 The Order Cheiroptera (121)— Superstitious Dread of Bats (122)— Their Usefulness (122) 

 — Their Flying .Apparatus (124) — Their General Characteristics and Habits (124) — The Genera 

 of the Order (127). 



CHAPTER II. 

 THE VAMPIRES 

 The Fruit-eating Bats or Flying Foxes (129)— The Kalongs (129) — The Leaf-nosed Bats or 

 Vampires (130) — The Horseshoe Bats (134) — The Rhinopoma (136). 



CHAPTER III. 

 THE TRUE BATS. 

 The Common Bat (137)— The Taphozous (138)— The Pipistrelle (138)— The Barbastelle (139) 

 —The California Bat (140)— The Great Bat of Britain (140)— The New York Bat (141)— The 

 Carolina Bat (141)— The Hoari- Bat (142)— The Long-eared Bat (142)— The Big-eared Bat (142)— 

 The Noctilionidxf 143)— The Genus Xycticeius (143) — The Genus Nyctinomus (144) — The Genus 

 Noctilio (144). 



