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flies at it like a cat, and devours it in an instant. At this 

 time it has all the appearance of one of the weasel tribe 

 rather than of a monkey. This and the Douroucouli, 

 however, are not the only Quadrumana that will eat flesh 

 with avidity, as well as fruit, the common aliment of 

 their congeners ; the black Tamarin, {Simia Midas), and 

 probably some others of the smaller American sort, will eat 

 it raw with the avidity of the carnivora. The Viudita has a 

 great dread of other species of monkeys, even the smallest. 

 Whether it be gregarious or otherwise does not appear. 



As we do not profess to enter into minute details concern- 

 ing all the species described, which would be uninteresting 

 and full of repetitions, we shall now close our remarks on 

 this part of the Quadrumana, and refer to the synoptical 

 table of all the species which compose the order, for the 

 generic and specific characters which separate them from 

 others. 



Supplement to the Lemurs. 



As the Apes, standing at the head of the Quadrumana, 

 seem, physically at least, to form the connecting link be- 

 tween all the lower animals and man, so the Lemurs may 

 be considered as the last connecting link between the qua- 

 drumana and the genuine quadrupeds. With the exception 

 of the quadrumanous conformation, they have little in com- 

 mon with the Simiae, corporeally, and still less intel- 

 lectually. 



These animals being for the most part nocturnal, Linnaeus, 

 in reference to the Roman mythology, called them lemurs 

 or ghosts. 



We shall proceed without further preface, to notice such 

 of their species and varieties as present any points of in- 

 terest, without referring to scientific detail and arrange- 

 ment further than has been already done by our author in 

 the text, and as appears in the synopsis appended. 



