. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Ql'ADRl'MANA. All are restlessly active, and extremely rapid in their movements; also remarkably short-tempered, bristling with fury when enraged, and patting on a most formidable appearance, considering their size. They are ~>i cleanly, that any appearance of dirt about their habitations causes them to. fret; and are exceedingly sensitive of damp: but, if duly attended to, are easily kept in captivity. The Plattrrhini were very properly range
. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Ql'ADRl'MANA. All are restlessly active, and extremely rapid in their movements; also remarkably short-tempered, bristling with fury when enraged, and patting on a most formidable appearance, considering their size. They are ~>i cleanly, that any appearance of dirt about their habitations causes them to. fret; and are exceedingly sensitive of damp: but, if duly attended to, are easily kept in captivity. The Plattrrhini were very properly ranged by Buffon in two great natural divisions, name! by him Safajous and Sagouins ; to the latter of which the Ouistitis are strictly referable, to judge from the aggregate of their conformation. We cannot but think that Cuvier has, in this rare instance, attached undue importance to the number of molar teeth, in so decidedly separating the Ouistitis from the other small American Quadrumana.~\ The Lemurs, (Lemur, Linn.), [Strepsirriiini, Geo/.'],— Comprehend, according to Linnaeus, all the Quadrumana which have [supposed] incisors in either jaw differing in number from four, or at least otherwise directed than in the Monkeys. This negative character could not fail to em- brace very different beings, while it did not unite those which should range to- gether. M. Geoffroy lias established several better characterized divisions in tl-'s genus. The four thumbs of these animals are well developed and op; able, and the first hind linger is armed with a raised and pointed claw (tig. 1 , all the other nails being flat. Their cover- ing is woolly; and their teeth begin to exhibit sharp tubercles, catching in each other, as in the Insecticora. [These animals have been described to differ from all other Mammalia in the circum- stance of their upper canines locking outside or before the lower: but we have just discovered that their true inferior canines have always hitherto been mistaken fo
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