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Notes.
[1] [Greek: anthrôpos]--Man.
[2] [Greek: heteros], different, [Greek: odous], a tooth.
[3] [Greek: homos], the same, [Greek: odous], a tooth.
[4] [Greek: diphuês], double, [Greek: odous], a tooth.
[5] N.B.--These descriptions of new species have been kindly supplied by
Dr. Forsyth Major from his MSS., and I am much indebted to him for
allowing them to be first published in the present work.
[6] N.B.--The white feet should have been more pronounced in the plate.
[7] [Greek: Kata], down; [Greek: rhis, rhinos], nose.
[8] [Greek: platys], flat; [Greek: rhis, rhinos], nose.
[9] Vide anteà, p. 145.
[10] "Red-footed Night-Monkey," on plate.
[11] See the figures in Flower and Lydekker, Mammals, p. 711.
[12] This curious custom, of women suckling animals, was also observed by
the present writer in New Guinea, where the native women suckle
puppies and young pigs.
[13] Humboldt and Stedman both state that these Monkeys _threw_ pieces of
branches towards them.
[14] [Greek: kata], down; [Greek: rhis, rhinos], nose or nostril.
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