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Show 216 NOCTURNAL LIFE OF ANIMALA. always have both eyes on one side of the body); for example, the Limande (Pleuronectes Limanda), which comes up the Loire to Orleans. Some sea forms of fish, as dolphins and skates, are repeated in the great rivers of both continents. The fresh-water dolphin of the Apure and the Orinoco differs specifically from the Delphinus gangeticus, as well as from all sea-dolphins. (See my Rel. hist. t. ii. pp. 223, 239, 406-413.) ( 6) p. 212.-"The striped nocturnal monlcey." This is the Douroucouli, or Cusi-cusi of the Cassiquiare, described by me as Simia trivirgata in my Recueil d'Observations de Zoologie et d' Anatomie comparee, t. i. pp. 306-311, tab. xxviii., the plate being taken from a drawing made by myself from the living animal. We subsequently saw this nocturnal monkey living in the menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris. (See the work above cited, t. ii. p. 340.) Spix also found this remarkable little animal on the Amazons River, and called it Nyctipithecus vociferans. POTSDAM, June, 1849. |