. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. GEXEKAL OBSERrjTIOXS OX THE QCASRCU-IXJ. above and below to a point at the elbow. This carious arrangement, so unlike that In most of the lower , is common to the Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Orang, some species of Hylobates, and even to some American Monkeys. It not invariable in the same genus, for in Hjlohates ar/ilis the hair on the fore- arm is directed downwai-ds. or towards the wrist, in the ordinary manner, and in Hylobates lar, it is nearly erect, with omy a slight forward inclination. It can," he adds, "hardly be d
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. GEXEKAL OBSERrjTIOXS OX THE QCASRCU-IXJ. above and below to a point at the elbow. This carious arrangement, so unlike that In most of the lower , is common to the Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Orang, some species of Hylobates, and even to some American Monkeys. It not invariable in the same genus, for in Hjlohates ar/ilis the hair on the fore- arm is directed downwai-ds. or towards the wrist, in the ordinary manner, and in Hylobates lar, it is nearly erect, with omy a slight forward inclination. It can," he adds, "hardly be doubted that with most Maunnals the thickness of the hair and its direction-on the back are adapted to throw off rain, and even tlie transverse hairs of the Dog's leg may serve for this end when he is curled up ; Mr. Wallace remarks that the convergence of the hair towards the elbow on the arms of the Orang serves to throw oif the rain when, as is the custom of thLs animal, the ai-ms are bent, with the hands clasped round a branch, or over its own head. But the previously-mentioned naturalist ajrtly remarks. HEAD OF THE BLACK HOWLER. (From the Froaeiings of the ZoolO'jkal Socklij.) that the attitude may not determine the direction of the hair; and that, on the contrary, the direction of the hair may determine the attitude. Of course the darkness of the negi-o makes any likeness, real or imaginary, with the Monkey, all the greater, and really the resemblance of the American Monkey—• whose name (Satanas) indicates his ill looks—with its jet-black skin, white rolling eyeballs, and liaii- pai-ted at the top of its head, to a young negro, is laughable enough. Any one who visits the Zoological Gardens soon becomes aware that there is a great variety of expression in the eyes and muscles of the face of Monkeys, and infinitely gi-eater in amount than in any other aiiimals, and in some points infinitely less than in man. Mr. Darwin has collected facts, and given the res
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