. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. TUE irulCLD OF MOyKEYS. 3 possibly be got at amiilst all the noisy debates, divisions, and clieers and counter-cheers of this Ajjcs' Parliament. There would be clearly two sides to this house of representati\es, the Americans and the Old World-ites, and the most uncritical observer would separate tliem. It never entered into the mind of a Monkey of the Old World to have a tail which would be as useful as another leg and hand, and as manageable as if it had an eye at its tipâthat is an invention of Dame Nature in the American tropics, and i
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. TUE irulCLD OF MOyKEYS. 3 possibly be got at amiilst all the noisy debates, divisions, and clieers and counter-cheers of this Ajjcs' Parliament. There would be clearly two sides to this house of representati\es, the Americans and the Old World-ites, and the most uncritical observer would separate tliem. It never entered into the mind of a Monkey of the Old World to have a tail which would be as useful as another leg and hand, and as manageable as if it had an eye at its tipâthat is an invention of Dame Nature in the American tropics, and is an evident improvement. Now this tail is visible enough, and so is another A)nerican pasuliarity. The Monkeys there have a broad end to the nose, and the openings of the nostrils look outwards, being separated by a thick gristle; but those of the Old "World have a thin gristle in the same place, and the nostrils are not wide apart but open in front, more or less like those of men and dogs. Here are, then, two " parties," those with nostrils wide apart witli a wide and thick gristleâ" broad. noses," called in scieutitic language " Plutyrhines "*; and those with the nostrils 'â looking down vcard," or â¢' ;t The great American section, or that of the broad-noses, is sjilit up to a certain extent, for all have not long prehensile tails, those of some being short; and others have them feeble in strength and â Imost brushy with fur. Here are, then, the means of readily knowing one set from another, so far as these far travelled Monkeys are concerned. The Old World section, with its close and downward-looking nostrils, at first sight appears very 1 nited, but after a little noticing there seem to be many different groups in it. Fii-stly, the com- kinds make up for the absence of a clinging tail, such as their American cousins have, by havins; something ^\â hich the Transatlantics would be glad of, namely, cheek
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