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34 some are closely allied to the buzzard, woodcock, quail, pelican, ibis, flamingo, and hornbill of Africa.

The upper Eocene forests of France were also haunted by representatives of the highest order of mammalia, or the Primates, which includes the families of man, the ape, and the lemur. The Adapis of the Paris basin classified by Cuvier with the Anoplotheres, has recently been proved to be related to the last of these as well as to the hoofed quadrupeds and insectivores. To the same family also belong the Necrolemur, discovered in the south of France, and the Cænopithecus of Rütimeyer, found in Switzerland. The family is also proved by Marsh and Cope to have inhabited the forests of North America, during the whole of the Eocene age in New Mexico, Wyoming, in Dakotah and Nebraska. None of these are identical with any living genus of lemur, but all