MONKEYS. 
Simiz. Liyn. 
Ir may perhaps seem to require some apology that we’ 
have ventured so far to depart from the ordinary system 
of arrangement as to remove the Monkeys from the 
station which they have hitherto usually been permitted 
to occupy at the head of the class, and to transfer them 
to their present position. We will not attempt to con- 
ceal that in so doing we were chiefly actuated by the 
desire of placing at the commencement of our series the 
largest and most attractive of the animals of which it 
was composed; and those which, in a Menagerie like 
that which we have undertaken to illustrate, always 
constitute the most imposing feature. But while we 
