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Borneo, of which there is a fine stuffed specimen in the 

 Natural History Museum at South Kensington : nor 

 indeed is it the size of the organ which is of importance 

 to us, whatever it may be to its fortunate possessor. It 

 is the position and direction of the nostrils to which we 

 must look. All the old world monkeys have the nostrils 

 close together and directed downwards. In all new world 

 monkeys they are more widely separated and directed 

 somewhat outwards. Hence the former are called catarr- 

 hine, down-nosed, and the latter platyrrhine or broad- 

 nosed. As to the tail there is, I think, only one American 



NEW WORLD. 

 (Platyrrhine.) 



OLD WORLD. 

 (Catarrhine. ) 



monkey which is almost tailless ; and the commoner sorts, 

 such as the spider-monkeys, the capuchins, and the 

 howlers, have prehensile tails which they use in climbing ; 

 as you may see any day at the Zoo. No old world 

 monkeys have prehensile tails this is an American 

 monopoly and in the mandril and the Barbary ape the 

 tail is reduced to an insignificant stump. All the old 

 world monkeys have the same number of teeth as you and 

 Sally have, viz., twenty grinding teeth, four eye teeth or 

 canines, and eight cutting or incisor teeth. But the 

 American monkeys, except the pretty little marmozets, 



