THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



SUB-KINGDOM I— VERTEBRATA- 



ORDER I. 

 PRIMATES. 



CLASS I— MAMMALIA. 



The most perfect of all animals is man, for 



besides having a marvellous animal organism 



he possesses reason, which so far transcends 



the highest instincts of other animals, that it places him in 



a category by himself. 



SUB ORDER I. Next to man it is convenient to deal 



Man-shaped with man-shaped animals, (anthropoidea) — 



AnimalB. those animals which most resemble him in 



external appearance and internal organism. This brings us 



to the order called Quadrumana or four-handed animals 



which include Lemurs and their allied forms, and manlike 



monkeys. Monkeys are divided into five families, one at 



least of which has to be further divided into sub-families to 



accommodate its variety. These families are: I The Apes; 



II The Sacred Monkeys; III The Cheek-pouched Monkeys; 



IV The Cebidae, with its several sub-families, and V The 



Marmosets. The first three of these families inhabit the old 



world, the last two belong to the new. 



The Ape The family of the Apes includes the Gorilla, 



Pamily. the Chimpanzee, the Orang-utan or mias, the 



Gibbons or long-armed Apes, and the Siamang; of these the 



Gorilla and the Chimpanzee belong to the West of Africa, 



the Orang-utan to Borneo, the Gibbons to Assam, the Malay 



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