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General zoology, or systematic natural history / By George Shaw ... with plates from the first authorities and most select specimens, engraved principally by Mr. Heath.

  • George Shaw
Date:
1800-1826
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Credit: General zoology, or systematic natural history / By George Shaw ... with plates from the first authorities and most select specimens, engraved principally by Mr. Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    QUADRUPEDS. ORDER PRIMATES. SIMA. APE. _ Linnean Generic. Character. Dentes primores utrinque 4, || Front-teeth in each jaw 4, approximati. ‘placed near together. Laniarii solitarii, longiores, || Canine-teeth solitary, longer hinc remoti. than the others, distant from the remaining teeth, or grinders. Molares obtusi. Grinders obtuse. Tuts numerous race may be properly divided into four sections, viz. 1. dpes, or such as are destitute of a tail. 2. Baboons, or such as have very muscular bodies, and whose tails are com- monly short. 3. Monkies, whose tails are, in ge- neral, long: and, lastly, Sapajous, or monkies, with what are termed prehensile tails, viz. such as can, at pleasure, be twisted round any object, so as to answer the purpose of an additional hand to the animal. We Te ]