Transcriber Note Text emphasis is denoted as _Italic Text._ _Barr's Buffon._ Buffon's Natural History. CONTAINING A THEORY OF THE EARTH, A GENERAL _HISTORY OF MAN_, OF THE BRUTE CREATION, AND OF VEGETABLES, MINERALS, _&c. &c._ FROM THE FRENCH. WITH NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR. IN TEN VOLUMES. VOL. IX. London: PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETOR, AND SOLD BY H. D. SYMONDS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1807. T. Gillet, Crown-court, Fleet-street. CONTENTS OF THE NINTH VOLUME _Page_ _The Loris_ 1 _The Javelin Bat_ 3 _The Serval_ 6 _The Ocelot_ 9 _The Margay_ 13 _The Jackal and the Adil_ 17 _The Isatis_ 25 _The Glutton_ 29 _The Stinkards_ 35 _The Pekan and the Vison_ 41 _The Leming_ 46 _The Sea Otter_ 51 _The Canakian Otter_ 52 _The Seal, Walrus, and the Manati_ 55 _The Seal_ 57 _The Walrus, Morse, or Sea-Cow_ 78 _The Dugon_ 89 _The Manati_ 92 _The Nomenclature of Apes_ 107 _The Orang-Outang, or the Pongo and the Jocko_ 149 _The Pithecos, or Pigmy_ 177 _The Gibon, or Long-tailed Ape_ 185 _The Magot, or Barbary Ape_ 188 _The Papion, or Baboon, properly so called_ 192 _The Mandrill_ 197 _The Ouanderou, and the Lowando_ 199 _The Maimon_ 202 _The Macaque, and the Egret_ 205 _The Patas_ 208 _The Malbrouck, and the Bonnet Chinois_ 210 _The Mangabey_ 216 _The Mona_ 218 _The Callitrix, or Green Monkey_ 221 _The Moustac_ 224