THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



SOUTH PAVILION 

 MONKEYS, APES, RODENTS AND BATS 



This hall is in course of rearrangement; in the final plan 

 it is intended to include primitive man as well as the other 

 members of the order Primates. 



Facing the entrance is a group of Colobus monkeys. 

 The specimens in the group have been selected to show the 

 stages of coloration from youth to old age. The young are 

 born white, but their color changes so rapidly that this fact 

 was long doubted even by scientists. 



On three sides of the hall north, east and south are 

 representative specimens of monkeys of the Old and the 

 New World. One large case contains a family of orang- 

 utans, one of the first groups of large animals to be 

 mounted in this country, and adjacent are examples of the 

 gorilla. The chimpanzee, "Mr. Crowley," who died in 

 1888, after living in Central Park Menagerie for five years, 

 is near-by. In another case is a group of bats, the only 

 mammals that fly, and in a wall case on the west are life- 

 size figures of the three best defined races of man, i.e., the 

 White or Caucasian, represented by a figure of a Nor- 

 wegian woman in holiday attire, the Yellow or Mongolian, 

 by that of a Chinese farm laborer, and the Black or African 

 race, by "Manziga," a native African chief of the Azande 

 tribe. 



In other portions of the hall are groups of birds: wood- 



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