34 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. n. 



some are closely allied to the buzzard, woodcock, quail, 

 pelican, ibis, flamingo, and hornbill of Africa. 1 



The Order Primates represented. 



The upper Eocene forests of France were also haunted 

 by representatives of the highest order of mammalia, or 

 the Primates, which includes the families of man, the ape, 

 and the lemur. The Adapis 2 of the Paris basin classi- 

 fied by Cuvier with the Anoplotheres, has recently been 

 proved to be related to the last of these as well as to the 

 hoofed quadrupeds and insectivores. To the same family 

 also belong the Neerolemurf discovered in the south of 

 France, and the Ccenopithecus 4 of Etitimeyer, found in 

 Switzerland. The family is also proved 5 by Marsh and 

 Cope to have inhabited the forests of North America, 

 during the whole of the Eocene age in New Mexico, 

 Wyoming, in Dakotah and Nebraska. None of these 

 are identical with any living genus of lemur, but all 



1 Milne Edwards, Oiseaux Fossiles, ii. 543. 



2 Gervais, Zool. et Paleontologie Generate, p. 28 et seq. Journ. de Zool. 

 i. 476. Phosphorites de Quercy, Tarn-et-Garonne-et-Lot. 



3 Filhol, Journ. de Zool. ii. 476. Gaudry, op. cit. iv. 521. Dell 

 fortrie, op. cit. ii. 414. Gaudry, Les Enchainements, c. x. 



4 Riitimeyer, Ueber die HerJcunft Unserer Thierwelt, 4to, 1867, p. 52. 

 The fauna of the Bohnerze, in which the Csenopithecus was found, is con- 

 sidered by Heer to be of Mid Eocene age. It seems to me more probable 

 that it represents also the Upper and Lower divisions. The local deposit 

 of Bohnerze (iron ore) in Switzerland had begun in the Cretaceous age, 

 and may have been continued throughout the Eocene period. The 

 fauna contains characteristic forms of upper as well as Middle Eocene 

 species. 



5 Marsh, Introduction and Succession of Vertebrate Life in America. 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1877. Cope, 

 Hyopsodus. Report of U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories. Fossil 

 Vertebrates, i. 75. 



