MONKEYS, Vol. I. By HENRY O. FORBES, F.L.S., &c. " Vol. II. " CETACEA " CATS By R. LYDEKKER, B.A., &c. DOGS " RUMINANTS " BRITISH MAMMALS " MARSUPIALS " Ready. HORSES " PACHYDERMS " BRITISH BIRDS, Vol. I. By R. BOWDLER SHARPE, LL.D. Ready. " " II. " " " III. " " " IV. " SUN-BIRDS " HUMMING-BIRDS " BIRDS OF WEST AFRICA " PARROTS By HENRY O. FORBES, F.L.S., &c. PIGEONS " GAME BIRDS By W. R. OGILVIE GRANT. BUTTERFLIES (with special } By W. F. KIRBY, F.L.S. reference to British Species) } BUTTERFLIES, Vol. II. " MOTHS (with special reference to } " British Species) } BEETLES, CRICKETS, &c. " BEES " FISHES, Vol. I. By Professor R. H. TRAQUAIR, F.R.S. " " II. " " " III. " LONDON: W. H. ALLEN & CO., LIMITED, 13, WATERLOO PLACE, S.W. Notes. [1] [Greek: anthrôpos]--Man. [2] [Greek: heteros], different, [Greek: odous], a tooth. [3] [Greek: homos], the same, [Greek: odous], a tooth. [4] [Greek: diphuês], double, [Greek: odous], a tooth. [5] N.B.--These descriptions of new species have been kindly supplied by Dr. Forsyth Major from his MSS., and I am much indebted to him for allowing them to be first published in the present work. [6] N.B.--The white feet should have been more pronounced in the plate. [7] [Greek: Kata], down; [Greek: rhis, rhinos], nose. [8] [Greek: platys], flat; [Greek: rhis, rhinos], nose. [9] Vide anteà, p. 145. [10] "Red-footed Night-Monkey," on plate. [11] See the figures in Flower and Lydekker, Mammals, p. 711. [12] This curious custom, of women suckling animals, was also observed by the present writer in New Guinea, where the native women suckle puppies and young pigs. [13] Humboldt and Stedman both state that these Monkeys _threw_ pieces of branches towards them. [14] [Greek: kata], down; [Greek: rhis, rhinos], nose or nostril. * * * * * Corrections made to printed text P. 15. 'long vacuity between incisors and pre-molar' corrected from '... canines and pre-molar' (canines are absent!) P. 147 (ears) 'exposed' corrected from 'ex-exposed' (line break). P. 182 'Jacchus [Hapale] bicolor' corrected from 'facchus...' P. 262 'terminating' (in a tuft of hairs) corrected from 'teminating'.