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the back, and is used by the Abyssinians and the Bobies of Fernando 
Po as shields for their arms. 
Case 10. The Monkeys of Africa. 
Case 11. The Mangabeys of Africa. 
Case 12. The Makaque or Bonnet Monkey of Tropical Asia, 
and the magot of Africa, which has been naturalized on the Rock of 
Gibraltar, and is the only monkey found wild in Europe. 
Cases 13, 14. The Baboons or Dog-faced Apes from Africa: as 
the hamadryas, the papio, the mandril, and the drill. 
Cases 15— 19. The Monkeys from Tropical America; they are 
generally slow, and feed on leaves. 
Case 15. The Spider Monkey from Brazils. 
Case’ 16. The Negro Monkeys in the upper part of the Case, and 
below them the Howlers, so called from the continual loud noise they 
make in the woods, especially at night. 
Case 17. The Sakis with prehensile tails. 
Case 18. The Night Apes, with large nocturnal eyes like owls; the 
CaUithrices, the hairy monkey, and the Jew monkeys. 
Case 19. The Teetees, Marmozettes and Silky Monkey, which are 
generally of a small size. 
Cases 20 — 22. The Lemurs and the Propithece, from Madagascar ; 
they eat fruit and insects. 
Case 23. On the upper shelves, the loris from Ceylon ; slow 
lemur from India, Sumatra, and Java ; the indri and cheirogales, from 
Madagascar ; the galagos from Western Africa : and on the lower 
shelves are the cologos, or flying lemurs, which live on the trees 
in the Indian Archipelago, suspending themselves by their feet to the 
branches with the back downwards, and thus forming a kind of ham- 
mock in which they nurse their young. 
Case 24. On the upper shelves, the leaf-nosed bat from Brazils, 
the vampire, or bloodsucking bat, from the same country ; the Rhino- 
lophes and Megadermes, from India and Africa. On the lower shelves 
are placed the horseshoe bats of the Old World. 
Case 25. The Nycteres of Africa, and the Petalias of Java; the 
Nyctophiles of Australia; the Barbastelles and long-eared bats of 
Europe ; and the true bat and Scotophiles, which are scattered over 
different parts of the world, and the Lasiures of America. 
Case 26. The Mormops and Chelonicteres of the West Indies ; 
the Taphozous of Africa and India; the bull-dog bats of Tropical 
America ; and the Molossi and Nyctinomes. 
Cases 27 — 29. The different kinds of fruit-eating bats, which from 
their large size are often called flying foxes ; they are only found in 
the warm parts of the Old World and the Australian islands. 
Cases 30—43. The Glirtne Mammalia. 
Case 30. The various kind of Rats on the upper shelves, and 
the different species of Mice on the lower ones. 
Case 31. The Hapalotes of Australia, and other genera allied 
to the rats, on the upper shelves ; the voles and jerboa rats, and the 
spinous-pouched rat from Tropical America on the lower shelves. 
Case 32. The Beaver, young and old, of Europe and South America ; 
the coypus rat of Tropical America, much used, like the beavers, to 
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