THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM 



nosed mole, so called because of the curious star-like 

 formation on the end of its snout; the African or golden 

 mole, rare in collections; the common shrew; the water 

 shrew of western Africa, which can swim and feeds upon 

 water beetles and crustaceans; the squirrel shrew of Asia 

 which feeds on insects and fruit; the African jumping 

 shrew; the curious solenodon, a little-known animal confined 

 to the islands of Cuba, Santo Domingo and Haiti; the hedge- 

 hog of Europe, whose bristly spines enable it to turn into a 

 prickly ball in the presence of danger, and the tenrec, or 

 Madagascar hedgehog, complete a representative series of 

 the Insectivora. 



Members of the bat family occupy other side of case. 



The lemurs, in a case to the north, belong to the lowest 

 division of the Order Primates, which contains also the 

 monkeys, apes and man. The specimens shown include the 

 gray lemur, smallest of the true lemurs, the ring-tailed 

 lemur, one of the most beautiful, and the ruffed lemur, 

 black-headed lemur, crown lemur, mongoose lemur and the 

 aye-aye, a rare relative of the lemurs which resembles a 

 squirrel. 



In the large Primate case, which now faces the visitor at 

 the end of the hall, may be seen monkeys of the Old and 

 New Worlds, the anthropoid apes and a model of an aborig- 

 inal Australian, to represent man. 



The monkeys of the New World, shown at the left of the 

 case, differ remarkably from those of the Old World, one 

 important point of difference being the prehensile tails, by 



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