[152] Naturalists now class monkeys under the order “Primates” (or highest forms), together with man, and they have given up the term Quadrumana, or four-handed, because, although the feet grasp like hands, they are true feet. Nevertheless, this term is very useful; and, if properly understood, expresses the grasping power of the four feet characteristic of the group.
[153] Platyrrhine monkeys, from Platus broad, rhines nostrils.
[154] Except the marmosets, which have a peculiar dentition of their own.
[155] Catarrhine monkeys; kata downward, rhines nostrils.
[156] See Parkyns’ Life in Abyssinia.
[157] Hylobates, or walker in the woods.
[158] Malay: Orang man, utan forest.
[159] The Dinocerata of the Middle Eocene of America. These gigantic extinct animals, with tusks and horns, but very small brains, are believed by Professor Marsh to have connected the two groups the elephants and the hoofed animals among the early milk-givers.
[160] Anoplotherium; for this form and others, see [p. 256].
[161] Paleotherium.