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MONKEY-CAGES, BABOONS, AND SATYRS. 
INFINITE VARIETY OF THE MONKEY TRIBES.—BABOONS. 
—SATYRS.—MAN-TIGERS.—APES. — CHIMPANZEE.— 
ORAN-OTANG. 
You are aware that the whole multitude 
of Monkeys, in which the tropical regions, 
throughout the globe, so much abound, is 
divided by Zoologists into three classes; 
those without tails, Apes; those with short 
tails, Baboons; and those with long tails, 
and small dimensions, Monkeys, especially 
so called. Of these, again, the first are ani- 
mals generally reported as of a shy and seri- 
ous deportment; the second, forward and 
ferocious; the third, cheerful, busy, socia- 
ble, and full of endless little diverting tricks, 
and of petty mischief, from perpetual mo- 
tion and intermeddling. The diversity of 
form and colour, of figures and faces, which 
you witness here, will remind you of the di- 
