I.I 



GENERAL VIEW. 



(Birds); III. REPTILIA (Reptiles); IV. BATRACHIA (Am- 

 phibians) ; * V. PISCES (Fishes). 



Moreover, Aves and Reptilia are classed together in a 

 large group (or province) which bears the name SAUROPSIDA. 

 Similarly Batrachia and Pisces are grouped together, and to 

 their united mass the common name ICHTHYOPSIDA is 

 applied. 



The class Mammalia comprises all the creatures which 

 suckle their young, and is made up of man together with all 

 beasts, and each is spoken of as a mammal. All mammals 

 are divisible into three great groups or sub-classes. 



The first sub-class comprises man and all the more well- 

 known beasts. It is called MONODELPHIA, and the animals 

 contained within it are termed Monodelphous mammals. 

 These are arranged in the following orders : 

 I. PRIMATES. Man, the Apes of the Old and New 

 World, together with the Le- 

 murs. Among the Apes and 

 Lemurs are the Gorilla and 

 Chimpanzee, the Orang, the 

 Gibbons, the Proboscis Mon- 

 key, the Barbary Ape (Inuus], 

 the Baboons (Cynocephalus), 

 the Spider Monkey s(Ateles), 

 the Howlers (Mycetes) ; also 

 Pithcria, Chrysothrix, the 

 Squirrel Monkey, the Mar- 

 morets (Hapale), and the 

 genera Indris, Lemur, Microcebus, Galago, Loris, 

 Nycticebus, Tarsius, and Cheiromys^ or the Aye-aye. 



FlG. 14. A U3NOAKMED APE, 



OR GIBBON (Hylobates). 



FIG. 15. A LEMUROID OF THR 

 GENUS Lemur. 



FIG. 16. THE AYE-AYE 

 (Clieiromys}. 



II. CHEIROPTERA. The Bats, including the Flying Foxes 

 (Ptcropus), the common bats, the Horseshoe and 



i E.g. frogs, toads, efts. 



