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productive, the offspring was immediately left, and 

 the greatest apathy exhibited. Under every advantage 

 Frederic Cuvier was unsuccessful twice, and found it 

 impossible to preserve the young beyond a few hours.* 

 In geographical distribution, the quadrumanous 

 order presents some curious examples. That part ot 

 them to which this volume is devoted, is found in three 

 divisions of the world, and is entirely confined to the 

 warmer parts. Europe, with one exception, which 

 merely skirts its southern border, and North America, 

 are without them, from the unsuitable nature of the 

 climate ; and among the various anomalous forms pecu- 

 liar to New Holland, and the vast archipelago of the 

 Southern Ocean, scarcely one approaches to any resem.' 

 blance. The smaller formed long-tailed monkey^ 

 (which constitute the numerous family of Guenons in 

 the systems,) of mild disposition and playful manners 

 and generally clothed with a fur of considerable beauty, 

 are in a general way distributed over Africa and India; 

 among these, however, the genus Semnopithecus of 

 F. Cuvier, seems exclusively Indian, while, with a 

 few exceptions, the Cercopitheci of the same naturalist, 

 and Cercocebi of Geoffrey, inhabit Africa. The most 

 typical forms in the zoology ^of these countries, are, in 

 the last ; the baboons, or Cynoceph&li, more bestial 

 in all their forms and habits, and deviating from 

 the quadrumanous type. In one or two aberrant 



* The Ouistiti produced three in confinement, and nursed them 

 with great attention. See our description of that species. 



