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Origin of Species The Anthropoidea The Catarrhine 

 Monkeys: Family Simiidae : Gorilla Chimpanzee Orang- 

 Outan Gibbons Siamang Family Cercopithecidae : Genus 

 Cercopithecus : Green Monkey Pig-tailed Macaque Barbary 

 Ape Wanderoo Yellow Baboon Chacma Thoth Mandrill 

 Diana Monkey White-nosed Monkey Mangabey Patas 

 or Red Monkey Genus Semnopithecus : Hanuman Monkey 

 Proboscis Monkey Platyrrhine Monkeys: Spider Monkey 

 Coaita Red Howler Capuchin Monkey Saki Hand- 

 drinker Douroucouli Marmoset Lion Tamarin Lemur- 

 oidea: Ruffled Lemur Ring-tailed Lemur Brown Mouse 

 Lemur Slender Loris Slow Loris Galago Tarsier 

 Aye-aye Dermoptera: Colugo 31 



CHAPTER IV 

 ORDER II. CHIROPTERA (BATS) 



General description of the Chiroptera Long-eared Bat 

 Pipistrelle Bat Barbastelle Bat Whiskered Bat Horse- 

 shoe Bats Mouse-coloured Bat Fruit Bats Kalong 

 Vampire Bat Bat guano 77 



CHAPTER V 



ORDER III. INSECTIVORA (INSECT-EATERS) 



General description of the Insectivora Hedgehog Mole 

 Common Shrew Pigmy Shrew Water Shrew Elephant 

 Shrew Tanrec Tana or Tree Shrew Potamogale . . 89 



CHAPTER VI 



ORDER IV. -CARNIVORA (FLESH-EATERS) 

 SUB-ORDER i. CARNIVORA OF THE LAND 



General description of the Carnivora Family Felidae : Lion 

 Tiger Leopard Ounce Jaguar Puma Ocelot Fishing 

 Cat Serval Wild Cat Domestic Cat Lynx Caracal 

 Cheetah Hyasnas Aard Wolf Family Viverridae : Civet 



Ichneumon Mongoose Genet Parodoxure Binturong 



Suricate Family Canidse : Domestic Dog Eskimo Dog 



Pariah Dog Red Dog of the Deccan Cape Hunting Dog- 

 Dingo Wolf Coyote Jackal Common Fox Arctic Fox 



