milk teeth consist of four incisors above and below, two pre-molars
above and below, and four true molars above and below, making twenty
teeth in all. All these animals, except the first two genera, have
simple stomachs, but the liver has several fissures in it in the
Baboons (as it has in the Gorilla), and but few in the Asiatic species
(as in the Orangs)--facts of no small significance, for it is very
probable that the Gorilla is one of the Baboon line, as the Orang is
one of the genealogical tree of a Semnopithecus. The brain exhibits all
the convolutions seen in the Anthropomorpha, but the very monkeyish
external perpendicular one is well marked. The little brain is not
uncovered by the brain proper, which is shortest in the Sacred Apes and
longest in the Baboons.
The description of the Cynocephali ends that of the Monkeys of the Old
World--The Catarrhini--and the whole of the group may be classified as
follows:--
_Class._--Mammalia.
_Order._--Primates.
_Family._--Catarrhini.
_Sub-Family._--{1. Anthropomorpha.
{2. Cynomorpha.
1. Anthropomorpha.
Genus--Troglodytes. Example--The Gorilla and Chimpanzee.
„ Simia. „ The Orang-utan.
„ Hylobates. „ The Gibbons.[72]
2. Cynomorpha.
Genus--Semnopithecus. Example--The Entellus Monkey.
„ Colobos.[73] „ The Guereza.
„ Cercopithecus. „ The Guenons and Mangabeys.[74]
„ Macacus. „ The Magot.
„ Cynocephalus. „ The Baboons.[75]
CHAPTER X.
THE MONKEYS OF THE NEW WORLD.[76]
THE CEBIDÆ--THE HOWLERS--THE WOOLLY MONKEYS--THE SPIDER MONKEYS--THE
SAJOUS.
The Monkeys of the New World--How Distinguished from those of
the Old--Their Division into Families--The First Family, THE
CEBIDÆ, with Prehensile Tails--THE HOWLERS--Appropriateness of
their Name--Where Found--General Description--THE YELLOW-TAILED
HOWLER--Anatomical Peculiarities and Appearance of the Face--Other
Members of the Family--THE BLACK HOWLER--Its Locality--THE
WOOLLY MONKEYS--THE CAPARRO AND BARRIGUDO--First noticed by
Humboldt--Peculiarities of the Skeleton--THE SPIDER MONKEYS--Seen
by Humboldt in the Brazilian Forests--Remarkable Power of the
Tail--Flexibility of the Limbs--Conformation of the Brain--Other
Species--THE COAITA--Curious Stories of them in Captivity--THE
CHAMECK--THE BLACK SPIDER MONKEY--Its Geographical Range--Its
Position in Sleep--THE VARIEGATED SPIDER MONKEY--THE SAJOUS--THE
CAIARÁRA--Observed by Bates on the Amazon--Other Varieties--THE
BROWN SAJOU--THE CAPUCHIN SAJOU--Described by Brehm--Their
Remarkable Dexterity and Cleverness--Diseases of Monkeys.
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