. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. •4. Fig. 4.—Hand and Foot of Lemur brace very difl'orent beings, while it did not imite those which should range to- gether. M. Geoffroy has established several better characterized divisions in th'.s genus. The four tluimbs of these animals are Avell developed and oppos- able, and the first hind finger is armed with a raised and pointed claw (iig. A), all the other nails being flat. Theh cover- ing is woolly; and their teeth begin to exhibit sharp
. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. •4. Fig. 4.—Hand and Foot of Lemur brace very difl'orent beings, while it did not imite those which should range to- gether. M. Geoffroy has established several better characterized divisions in th'.s genus. The four tluimbs of these animals are Avell developed and oppos- able, and the first hind finger is armed with a raised and pointed claw (iig. A), all the other nails being flat. Theh 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 canmes have always hitherto been mistaken for ad- ditional incisors, which they resemble in general aspect and direction; while the succeeding tooth, which from its size and appearance has been sujiposed to be the lower canine, is in reahty the first false molar; (as will readily appear on opposing the successive teeth of both jaws). In the genus Tarsius, however, the true canine assumes more of its ordinary form; and the same is observable of the first false molar in Microcebus* The grinding motion of the lower jaw is exceedingly reduced.] The Lemurs, properly so called {Lemur, as restricted [Prosimta, Briss.]),— Have six [four] lovicr incisors, compressed, and slanting forwards [as are also the canines] ; four in the upper jaw, which are straight, those intermediate being separated from each other; trenchant [upper] canines; six molars on each side above, and six belowf; the ears small. They are very nimble animals, and have been designated Fox-nosed Monkeys, from their pointed heads. They subsist on fruits. Their species are veiy immerous, and inhabit only the island of iladagascar, where they appear to replace
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