CHAP. XVI 



Backboned Animals 



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companions of itinerant musicians, while lowest and smallest among 

 true monkeys are the South American marmosets. Distinct from 

 all these, probably outside the monkey order altogether, are the 

 so-called half-monkeys or Lemurs. 



We might describe the clever activities of monkeys, the shelters 

 which some of them make, their family life, parental care and 

 sociality, their docility, their intelligent habits of investigation, and 

 their quickness to profit by experience ; but it would all amount to 

 this, that their life at many points touches the human, that they 

 are in some ways like growing children, in other ways like savage 

 men, though with more circumscribed limits of progress than either. 



ORDERS OF MAMMALS. 



MARSUPIALS 



MONOTREMES 



