THE MONKEY FAMILY. 



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or never resort to the ground, except through 

 accident or misfortune. 



I would also entreat young naturalists to consider 

 well, and always bear in mind the formation of the 

 extremities of the four limbs of a monkey. This 

 animal, properly so speaking, is neither a quad- 

 ruped, nor what moderns now style a quadrumanus, 

 that is, a creature with four hands. The two limbs 

 of its fore parts, may safely be termed hands to all 

 intents and purposes. Whilst the two limbs of its 

 hind quarters, are, in reality, neither hands nor 

 feet; but, "centaur like," partake of the nature of 

 both ; their fore part, being well defined fingers, 

 and the hind part, a perfectly formed heel. Hence, 

 we are not surprised at the self possession which 

 these agile animals exhibit, when left to their own 

 movements in their native woods. 



In my arrangement then, of the monkey family, 

 I place the ape at its head : secondly the baboon ; 

 thirdly the monkey with an ordinary tail ; and 

 fourthly the monkey with a prehensile tail. 



The ape is entirely without a tail, and in this 

 he resembles man. He is an inhabitant of the old 

 world only. 



The baboon has a short tail, somewhat in 

 appearance, like the tails of our own pointer dogs, 

 truncated and deformed by the useless and wanton 



