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NATURAL HISTORY. 
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Table 24. The Comatula or Sea Wigs, 
Which are the recent representatives of encrinites, found so abundantly 
in certain rocks. 
THIRD ROOM. 
The Wall Cases round this Room contain the Handed and Glirine 
Mammalia, and the Table Cases the different kinds of Corals. 
The Wall Cases. Mammalia. 
Cases 1—28. The Handed Beasts. 
Cases 1—4. The Apes: as the chimpanzee of Tropical Africa; 
and the pongo or orang outan; the siamang, and the long-armed 
apes or gibbons of Tropical Asia and the islands of the Asiatic Ocean. 
Cases 5—7. The Capped Apes of Asia; as the Simpai, from 
Sumatra and Java ; the grey-headed capped ape, and the houlman of 
Continental India; and the Nestor of Ceylon; the houlman lives near 
the houses, and is venerated by the natives. 
Cases 8, 9. The Thumbless Monkeys of Tropical Africa; as 
the guereza, which has a fringe of long white hairs on each side of 
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. 
