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Animalia ;^nf o-eTaxruXa, quorum pedes omnes sunt manu-formes, seu animalia 

 quadru-mana. 

 Cum pollice in omni pede, so. simia (caudata, non caudata,) romack, coati Brasil. 



&c. 

 Sine pollice in pedibus. — Anterioribus, vantrevan, sciurus, mus, &c. — Poste- 

 rioribus, genus felinum. — Duo tantilm sunt manu-formes, sc. vel 



Anteriores, cum pollice; niantegar, &c. — sine pollice; cuandu Brasil. Mar- 

 gravii, tlaquatzin spinosum Hernandez, hystrix, tamandua Brasil. &c. 



Posteriores, cum pollice, carigueya, s. opossum, &c. — Sine pollice. 



Under the first member of this division I include the ape and monkey kind, 

 which, as I have shown in my discourse on the ourang outang, ought rather to 

 be reckoned a four-handed than a four-footed animal. And considering how 

 large a species of animals may be reduced under this quadrumanous kind, agree- 

 ing in this particular, though in others different, I think it but just to assign 

 them a general class, afterwards to be subdivided according to the gradual dif- 

 ferences they have from one another. 



The romack therefore, though differing much from the monkey kind in the 

 head and face, yet being quadrumanous, and on each hand having a thumb, I 

 reduce under this head. This animal was brought alive from Fort St. George. 

 Whether it is described by any, or what other names it is called by, I know 

 not. And because in its face and head it so much resembles a (oXj and in the 

 rest of its body a monkey, I shall call it aAwTrn-Tn'Onxoc, vulpi- simia, or the fox 

 monkey. But the next I have mentioned in this class, the coati of Brasil and 

 Virginia, or the rackoon or rattoon, though it does not resemble the monkey 

 kind in its body, yet because it has hands like a monkey, as Margrave tells us, 

 I place it likewise here ; as may be all others whose feet are all formed like 

 hands, and have a thumb on each. 



For there are some that have not a thumb on their fore-feet, and others that 

 want one on the hinder. In the number of the former may be reckoned the 

 vantrevan, the squirrel kind and mouse kind, or any others that may be observed 

 to have all their feet formed like hands, only that their fore feet want a thumb. 

 The vantrevan, as it was called by the person who showed it here in London, 

 altogether resembles a monkey : on the fore feet it had only four long fingers, 

 but no thumb. It is a beautiful animal, very brisk and nimble in motion, and is 

 loving; it has a very long tail, by which it suspends its body as the opossum does. 



The squirrel kind has on the fore feet four long fingers, on the hind feet five, 

 and one like a thumb. It uses its fore feet-like hands in holding up its food to 

 its mouth, and lives on trees, as monkeys do. But the affinity between the 

 monkey and squirrel kinds appears better by some monkeys I have seen, which 



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