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fufficient to procure to them the name of ofes, 

 without confidering that, for the transference 

 of a name, identity of genus, and even of fpe- 

 cies, is neceflary. Now, thefe American ani- 

 mals, of which we fliall make two dalles, under 

 the appellations of fapajotis, or morikeys with 

 prehenhle tails ; and fagoins^ or monkeys with 

 long tails, which are not prehenfile, or want 

 the faculty of laying hold of any objcd, are 

 very different from the apes' of Afia and Afri- 

 ca ; and, in the iame manner, as no apes, ba- 

 boons, or monkeys are to be found in the New 

 World, there are neither flipajous nor fagoins in 

 the Old. Though we have already given a ge- 

 neral view of thefe fads, in ouf diifertation con- 

 cerning the animals of both Continents, vve can 

 now prove theln in a more particular manner, 

 and demohftrate, that, of feventeen Ipecies, td 

 which all the animals of the Old World called 

 rpcs, may be reduced, and, of twelve or thir- 

 teen in the New World, to whom this name has 

 ueen transferred, none of them are the fame, or 

 ro be found equally in both Worlds ; for, of the 

 feventeen fpecies in the Old Continent, three or 

 four apes nuifl: firft be retrenched, who certainly 

 c::ift not in America, and to whorti the fapajous 

 and fagoins have no refemblance. In the iecond 

 place, three or four baboons mull likewife bd 

 •etrcfiched : They are larger than the fapajous 

 id fagoins, and alfo very different in figiu-e. 

 There remain only nir.e monkeys with whom 

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