INTRODUCTION. 5 



cially when we reflect on the terra incognita of 

 Africa, America, and even Asia, of New Holland, 

 and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, without ad- 

 verting to the new, and almost daily discoveries and 

 wonders of fossil osteology. 



URSINE HOWLING MONKEY, (Simla Ursina.) 



In speaking of Transatlantic animals, we will 

 commence with the Alouattes, or Howling Mon- 

 keys, the Bahoons of the new world. They ap- 

 proximate in size and fierceness to their African 

 and Asiatic brethren, and are, perhaps, still less 

 amenable to the discipline of man. They are dis- 



