THE YELLOW BABOON. 



CHAPTER III 







APES, MONKEYS, AND LEMURS continued 



THE OLD WORLD MONKEYS AND BABOONS 

 Family CERCOPITHECID^ 



ALTHOUGH there is some degree of uncertainty as to the precise significance to 

 be attached to the names Apes, Monkeys, and Baboons, we shall take leave to re- 

 strict the former term to the Man-like Apes described in the preceding chapter, and 

 use the two latter for those other Old World Primates which do not belong to the 

 group of Lemurs. The name Monkey is, however, also applicable to one family of 

 the Primates of the New World. Using then, the terms Monkeys and Baboons in 

 this sense, we may mention, in the first place, that zoologists include the whole of 

 those inhabiting the Old World in a single family, for which they adopt the name 

 Cercopithetidtf , taken from a genus of African monkeys. Our next point is to con- 

 sider how all these numerous species are to be distinguished as a whole from the 

 Man-like Apes on the one hand and from the American monkeys on the other. 

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