. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. QUADRUMANA. 63 All are restlessly active, and extremely rapid in their movements ; also remarkably short-tempered, bristling with fury when enraged, and putting on a most formidable appearance, considering their size. They are so 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 Platyrrhini were very properly ranged by BuflFon in two great natural divisions, named by Mm Sapajous and Sago
. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. QUADRUMANA. 63 All are restlessly active, and extremely rapid in their movements ; also remarkably short-tempered, bristling with fury when enraged, and putting on a most formidable appearance, considering their size. They are so 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 Platyrrhini were very properly ranged by BuflFon in two great natural divisions, named by Mm Sapajous 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 Qtiadrumana.} The Lemurs, {Lemur, Linn.), [Strepsirrhini, GeofJ],— 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 has established several better characterized divisions in this genus. The four thumbs of these animals are well developed and oppos- able, and the first hind finger is armed with a raised and pointed claw (fig. 4), 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 Insectivora. [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 for ad- ditional incisors, which they resemble in general aspect and directi
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