Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text. Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). A carat character is used to denote superscription: a single character following the carat is superscripted (example: A^4). [)e] indicates "e breve" (short e), and so forth. On pp. 237-257 the extinct genera and species referred to as being in "black type" are marked by a + sign. Page numbers enclosed by curly braces (example: {25}) have been incorporated to facilitate the use of the Alphabetical Index. Project Gutenberg has the other volume of this work. Volume I: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43991 * * * * * PLATE XXVI. [Illustration: ST. JOHN'S MACAQUE] _LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY._ EDITED BY R. BOWDLER SHARPE, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. A HAND-BOOK TO THE PRIMATES. BY HENRY O. FORBES, LL.D., F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., ETC., DIRECTOR OF MUSEUMS TO THE CORPORATION OF LIVERPOOL, _Author of "A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago," etc., etc., etc._ _VOL. II._ LONDON: EDWARD LLOYD, LIMITED, 12, SALISBURY SQUARE, FLEET STREET. 1897. PREFACE. The prefatory remarks in the preceding volume explain the purport of the "Hand-book" of the Primates, which has been undertaken by Dr. Forbes. I hope that the portion of the work devoted to the geographical distribution of these animals will be found to be of some interest; but, as explained by the author, the meagreness of the material in Museums renders the definition of the exact habitats of Monkeys extremely difficult. R. BOWDLER SHARPE. INTRODUCTION. I have little to add to the remarks given in the first volume of this "Hand-book." I may refer, however, to the interest which attaches to the study of the extinct forms of life, in relation to those which exist at the present day. Although I have endeavoured, to the best of my ability, to present to the student as complete a review of the species of Monkeys known to us at the present time, I am well aware that there is an enormous amount of work to be done before our knowledge of the Primates can be said to be complete. There is a natural repugnance to collecting specimens of Monkeys on the part of sportsmen. To shoot one feels like killing a sort of relation, and even our best collectors, who thoroughly understood the necessity of obtaining specimens in the interests of science, speak with a feeling of pain of the human-like distress which a wounded Monkey exhibits; and it is, therefore, difficult to induce travellers to shoot animals which offer so much of a "counterfeit presentment" to human beings.