NATURAL HISTORY. 
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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 Sajones, 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 — 53. The Rapacious Beasts. 
Cases 21 — 27. The various kinds of Cats, as the lion (Xeo), 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 ( Hyaena striata ) of 
Egypt; the spotted hyaena, from South Africa, with its young, wdiich 
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 
species of genets, from the Cape of Good Hope, Abyssinia, and 
Western Africa. The different species of Ichneumons or herpestes, the 
Mungos, from Asia and Africa ; and the Suricate, from the Cape 
of Good Hope and Central Africa. 
Case 31. The different species of Paradoxurus , Paguma , Hemi- 
galea, and Benturong, which inhabit India, Sumatra, and the other Asiatic 
islands ; the Cynogale, from Borneo ; and the Nandina , which comes 
from Western Africa; and the Bassaris or house marten of the 
Mexicans. 
Cases 32 — 37. The different species of Dogs, as the Newfound- 
land dog; the wolf of North America and Europe; the wild dogs of 
India, Africa, and North America. The different kind of Foxes of 
Europe, America, Africa, and India. The four-toed hunting dog 
of South Africa and Abyssinia, and the large- eared dog of the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
Case 38. The various species of Martens (Martes) of Europe and 
America; weasels from Europe and America; the masked weasel of 
