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review of the entire group of apes, an order of animals 

 consisting, as we have said, of two sections, each made 

 up of the various subordinate groups which have now 

 been enumerated and briefly noticed. Considered as 

 one whole, the ape order ranges through the warmer 

 part of the earth, from Gibraltar and northern China, 

 to the Cape of Good Hope and the Island of Timor, in 

 the Old World, and from 23 North latitude to about 30 

 South latitude in the New World. Individuals of the 

 entellus monkey group have been seen near Simla at an 

 altitude of 1 1 ,000 feet. Some of the localities richest in 

 monkeys are islands, as Ceylon, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, 

 Fernando Po, and Trinidad. 



There are, however, certain islands which seem 

 eminently well suited to support a large ape population, 

 where apes are, nevertheless, conspicuous by their 

 absence. Such are Madagascar, New Guinea, and the 

 West Indies. Moreover, no ape is found even in the 

 most tropical or best wooded parts of Australia. It is 

 the more remarkable that no ape should be found in the 

 great island of Madagascar, so rich in forests, seeing that 

 it is the special home of those beasts, before referred to, 

 named lemurs, which have generally been supposed to be 

 very closely related to the apes. 



In one or two of the West Indian islands monkeys 

 have been introduced and have run wild, showing that 

 they could very well have lived there had they been able 

 to enter the Antilles without the aid of man. Trinidad 

 is not a West Indian island. It is a detached portion of 

 the South American continent. 



We come now to the question concerning the existence 

 of any special resemblance between these animals and some 

 other given order of beasts. This is a problem by no means 

 easy to answer. As we have said, apes are commonly 



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