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GUIDE BOOK TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 
West Africa; grivet or tota, from Abyssinia; vemet, from the Cape of 
Good Hope; malbranck, from Africa; moustache, from Guinea; 
white-throated monkey, from India; samango, from South Africa; 
bearded monkey and red-eared monkey, and Burnett’s mona and 
haucher, from Fernando Po ; the mona and diana, the white-nosed or 
vaulting monkey, and black-cheeked ascagne, and the talapoin, from 
West Africa; patas, from Africa and Senegal; white-crowned mon- 
key, sooty mangabey, and white collared mangabey, from Africa ; 
rhesus, macaque, mungo or capped macaque, pelops, and bruk, from 
India ; brilliant macaque, from Japan ; black macaque, from the Phi- 
lippines and Celebeo ; wanderoo, from Ceylon ; papion, from Africa ; 
chacma, anubis, and baboon, from South Africa; gelada and tartarin, 
from Abyssinia ; drill and mandrill, from Africa. 
The Cases 12 to 18 contain the New World Monkeys, from Tro- 
pical America. 
Cases 12 — 15. The coaita, chameck, chuna, marimonaa, and brown 
spider monkeys, from Bolivia and Brazil; the thumbed miriki; ca- 
parro or negro monkey ; the Howlers, so called from the continued 
loud noise they make in the forest, especially at night. 
Cases 16 — 18. The Gabies, with prehensile tails; the Night Apes, 
with large nocturnal eyes, like owls ; the Hairy and Jew Monkeys, with 
club-like tails ; the Teetees, Marmozetts, and Silky Monkeys, which 
are generally of small size. 
Cases 19 and 20 contain the family of Lemurs : as the white fronted 
and black and white lemur, the ring-tailed macauco, and the propi- 
thece, from Madagascar — they live on insects and fruits; the loris, 
from Ceylon ; the slow lemur, from India, Sumatra, and Java ; the 
indri and cheirogales, from Madagascar; the galago, from Western 
Africa. 
Case 20, on the lower shelves are the colugos, or flying lemurs, which 
live on trees in the Indian Archipelago, suspending themselves by 
their feet to the branches, back downwards, and thus forming a kind 
of hammock, in which they nurse their young. 
Cases 21 — 52. The Rapacious Beasts. 
Cases 21 — 27. The various kinds of Cats, as the lion (Zeo), from 
South Africa; tiger, from India; the jaguar, and the different kinds of 
ocelots, from Central America ; the wild cats of Europe ; the chaus, 
from North Africa and Asia; the booted cat of the Cape of Good 
Hope; hunting leopard of India and Africa; the lynx, from Sardinia 
and the South of Spain, and from Canada; and the caracal of South 
Africa and India. 
Case 28. The Hyaenas, as the striped hyaena ( Hycena striata) of 
Egypt; the spotted hyaena, from South Africa, with its young, which 
is blackish brown. 
Cases 29 — 30. The true Civets, as the African civet, from the warmer 
parts of Africa ; the zibet of India and China, and the spotted zibet, 
or tangalung, from Sumatra. These animals all yield the secretion 
that has long been esteemed by some as a scent. The hyaena civet, 
or Proteles, from the Cape of Good Hope, and the slender ring-tailed 
Prionodon, from Malacca. The lower shelves contain the various 
