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HABITS.--"I first met with this species in Upper Burma," Dr. Anderson relates, "in passing through the magnificent defile of the Irawaddy, below Bhamo, where the river is enclos...
2. Part 2Crown, and sides of head, cheeks, neck, shoulders, upper back, and front of fore-limbs golden-yellow, mixed with a few black hairs, the individual hairs being dark grey at the b...
16. Part 16It was on this Ape that the late Dr. G. J. Romanes, attracted by its high intelligence, made his interesting psychological experiments, which are related in the Proceedings of t...
3. Part 3Skull rounded; muzzle wide in front, contracted at the base, concave beneath the orbits; orbital ridges large, and the frontal bone widely depressed behind them; pre-molars and...
9. Part 9HABITS.--"Few, if any, wild animals," observes Dr. Blanford, "afford better opportunities for observation than the Hanuman Monkey of Northern and Central India. Generally protec...
11. Part 11CHARACTERS.--Head without a crest. The naked face, the callosities, and the naked portions of the hands and feet yellow; head brown, with a narrow band of chestnut passing under...
7. Part 7CHARACTERS.--Face, nose, and lips black; whiskers rounded and bushy; no beard; fur long and harsh; form robust and powerful; whiskers grizzled, the hairs ringed with black and w...
12. Part 12The group of Tree-walkers, as the term _Hylobates_ signifies, {149}embraces the smallest-sized, the slenderest-bodied, the longest-limbed, and the most perfectly arboreal of all...
14. Part 14HABITS.--The Orang-utan, the "forest-living Man" of the Malays, and the "Mias" of the Bornean natives, lives solitary in the leafy tops of the trees in the forests, except at th...
5. Part 5DESCRIPTION.--Allied to _C. petaurista_. Fur tolerably long and but loosely applied to the body. Face naked; whiskers bushy; beard short; tail very long; callosities small. Leng...
6. Part 6This Monkey is very commonly to be seen alive in European {62}menageries, where it appears to stand the northern climate fairly well. At a meeting of the Zoological Society in N...
10. Part 10HABITS.--These Monkeys live in small companies composed of both sexes, in the highest trees in dry spots of the forest, never descending of their own accord to the ground, nor {...
15. Part 15The body is heavily built, but shorter and less robust than that of the Gorilla. The crown is depressed, and the supra-orbital ridges, from which rise stiff strong eye-brows, ar...
4. Part 4Mr. Everett met with this species in the islands of Sirhassen and Bunguran in the Natuna group, where he says they were abundant. He adds: "They come down in large parties to th...
8. Part 8_Colobus ferrugineus_, Illiger, Prodr. Syst. Mamm., p. 69 (1811); Gervais, H. N. Mamm., i., p. 66 (1854); Gray, P. Z. S., 1868, p. 181; Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, vii., p. 27 (1876);...
20. Part 20In the Palæolithic Terrace-Gravels at Galley Hill, in Kent, in strata in which numerous palæolithic implements have been found, one of the most interesting discoveries of the an...
22. Part 22Macaco barrigudo, i. 223 prego, i. 212 macaco, Lemur, i. 68, 69, 73 Macacus, i. 252, 277, 281; ii. 1, 4, 213, 228, 240 andamanensis, ii. 14 arctoides, ii. 8, 10, 11, 12, 250 ass...
17. Part 17Among the forests in which bamboos, liquidambars, tulip-trees, magnolias, laurels, and pomegranates flourished in Upper Pliocene days, in the middle of Europe, there lived troop...
23. Part 23sabæa, Cercopithecus, ii. 58 Simia, ii. 56, 58 sabæus, Cercopithecus, ii. 56, 58, 60, 244, 245 Chlorocebus, ii. 58 sabanus, Semnopithecus, ii. 116, 249 Saguinus vidua, i. 159 sa...
19. Part 191. Perodicticus calabarensis. 2. P. potto. 3. Galago alleni. 4. _G. demidoffi._ 5. G. monteiri. 6. _Papio maimon._ 7. P. leucophæus. 8. _P. babuin._ 9. P. anubis. 10. _P. sphinx...
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21. Part 21falconeri, Papio, ii. 212, 248 fallax, Cebus, i. 220 fascigularis, Semnopithecus, ii. 138 Fat-tailed Lemur, Samat's, i. 62 Thomas', i. 63 fatuellus, Cebus, i. 211, 220; ii. 210,...
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