QUADRUMANA. 



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All are restlessly active, and extremely rapid in their movements; also remarkably short-tempered, bristling; 

 witli fury when enrai;ed, and imttini; on a inost formidable appearance, considering their size. Tliey ai'e so 

 cleanly, that any appearance of dirt about their habitations causes tlieiti to IVet ; and aie e\eeedin:::;ly sensitive of 

 damp ; but, if duly attended to, are easily kept in captivity. 



The PLATvaRHiNt were very properly ranL;;cd )jy Bullon in two great natural (li\isions, named hy 

 Ijim Sapajoos and Sagouixs ; to t!ie latter of wliich the Oimtith are strictly referaljle, to judge from 

 the aggregate of tlieir couforniatioti. We cannot but tbink that Cu%ner has, in this rare instance, 

 attached undue importance to the number of molar teeth, in so decidedly separathig the Oui'ililh from 

 the other small American Qitadrumana.'] 



The Lkmurs, (Lemur, Liim.), 



[STREI'SIIiRIHNI, Geo/".], 



Coinjireliond, nccordmg to Linnteits, all the Qaadrumana which have [supposed] incisors in eitlier 

 jaw (lilferiiig in mtuiber from four, or at least otherwise directed than in the j\Ionke\ s. This 



negative cliavaeter couhl not fail to em- 

 brace veu'}' different I'eings, \\lule it did 

 not unite tlufse wliieu should range to- 

 gether. ?(L Gcoffroy has established 

 se\'eral better characterized divisions in 

 tb's gemis. The four thumbs of these 

 aoimals are well developed and oppos- 

 able, and the first hind finger is armed 

 with a raised and pointed claw (fig. -i), 

 all the other nails being flat. Their cover- 

 ing is woolly; and their teeth begin to 

 exlubit sharp tubercles, catching in each 

 other, as in the Insactioora. [These 

 amtnals have been described to diifer 

 frotit all other Mar/unulla in the circum- 

 stance of their U])per canines locking 

 outside or before the lower ; but ne have 

 jnst discovered that their true inferior caumes have always hitherto been mistaken for ad- 

 ilitional incisors, which they resemble in general asiiect and direction; while the succeeding 

 tooth, ivhich from its size and appearance has been supposed to be the lower canine, is m 

 reality the first false molar ; (as will readily appear on opposing the successive teeth of both 

 jaws). In the genus TflnsiHi-, however, the true canine assumes more of its ordinary form; 

 and the same is'observable of the first false molar in Microcebus* The grinding motion of 

 the lower jaw is exceedingly reduced.] 



The Lemur-s, properly so called {Lemur, as restricted [Proxrmm, Briss.]), — 

 Have six [four] lower incisors, compressed, and slanting forwards [as are also the cauines] ; four in 

 the upper jaw, which are straight, those intermediate being separated from each other; treacliant 

 [upper] canines ; six molars on each side above, and six hclowf; the ears sin.ilh They are very 

 nimble animals, and have been designated Fox-uo.^ed Monkeys, from their pointed heads. They 

 subsist on fruits. Tlieir siiccies are very numerous, and inhabit only the island of Madagascar, where 

 they appear to replace the Monkey-tribe, which, it is said, do not exist tliere. They diifer hut shghtly 

 among themselves, excejit in colour. 



[Thirteen, at least, have been ascertained definitively; one of the longest known of which is the Macaco of 

 BiilTon, or the Ring-tailed Lenrar (i. cntfa, Lin.), which is ash-grey, the tail annulated black and uhile. Others 

 are black, or rufous, with sometimes white ; and one beautiful species, the Hulled Lemur (i. mncaco, Lin.), is 



• x„ :.|,,.rr,acl, to Uii.s ilevi.,c,„i, „„ lb c part of Hit inferi.ir cani lie is 1 t'l'hf lalttT sl«tf„,ei.l thanccs to be corrcet, but, as ititenJcil 

 not[.,.l.ie ii. tl,e aJult Jla.iJriU.-En. I '""''I l>t>e I'een .r.oi.eous -Ko. 



