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Rh as the fingers, is long. Large companies inhabit the woods of Guiana; on the intrusion of man, curiosity impels them to come down to the lower branches to examine him, when they try to frighten him away. They are easily domesticated, and manifest much intelligence. D'Acosta, in his History of the West Indies, says of one belonging to the governor of Carthagena; "They sent the Quata to the tavern for wine, putting the pot in one hand, and the money in the other: they could not possibly get the money out of his hand before his pot was full of wine. If any children met him in the street, he would set his pot down and cast stones among the children till he had assured his way; then would he return to carry home his pot. And what is more, though he was a good bibber of wine, yet would he never touch it, till leave was given him." In this Family the form closely approaches that of quadrupeds; the muzzle is lengthened and pointed, and the nostrils are terminal: the thumbs of all the extremities are well developed and opposible, but the index finger of the hind hands bears a narrow pointed claw, while all the rest have broad nails. The number of teeth varies in different genera; the molars begin to exhibit sharp tubercles, which catch in each other, as among the Insectivora.

Most of the members of this family are peculiar to Madagascar, but some inhabit the African