Xviii CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XLV. 



TROPICAL BATS. 



Wondprfol Organisation of the Bats — The Fox-Bat — The Vampire — Its Blood- 

 gucking Propensities — The Vampire and the Scotchman — The Horse-Shoe 

 Bats — The Nycteribia ~ The Flying Squirrel — The Galeopithecus — The 

 Anomalurus Page 605 



CHAPTER XLVI. 



THE SIMI-a: OF THE OLD WORLD. 



Forest-Life — Excellent Climbers — Bad Pedestrians — Imperfectly known to the 

 Ancients — Similitude and Diiference between the Human Eace and the Apes — 

 The Chimpanzee— Chim in Paris — The Gorilla — The Uran — The Gibbons — 

 A Siamang on Board — The Proboscis Monkey — The Huniman — The Wanderoo 

 — The Cercopitheci — The Maimon — " Happy Jerry " — The Pig-Faced Baboon 



— The Derryas — The Loris and Makis . . . . .514 



CHAPTER XLVII. 



THE SIMI^ OF THE NEW WORLD. 



Widu Difference between the Monkeys of both Hemispheres — The Prehensile 

 Tail — The Wourali Poison — Mildness of the American Monkeys — The Stentor 

 Monkey — The Spider Monkeys— The Sajous — The Fox-tailed Monkeys — The 

 Saimiris — Friendships between various kinds of Monkeys — Nocturnal Monkeys 



— Squirrel Monkeys — Their Lively Intelligence . . . .531 



