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however, is no objection the same variation is frequently 



observed in the human subject. 



The arms of the remaining Ourangs reach only to the knee. They 



have no forehead, and the cranium retreats from the crest of the 



eye-brow. The name of Chimpanses might be exclusively applied 



to them. 



S. troglodytes, L. (The Chimpanse)(l) is covered with black 

 or brown hair. Could any reliance be placed on the accounts 

 of travellers, this animal must be equal or superior to man 

 in stature, but no part of it hitherto seen in Europe indicates 

 this extraordinary size. It inhabits Guinea and Congo, lives 

 in troops, constructs huts of leaves and sticks, arms itself with 

 clubs and stones, and thus repulses men and elephants; pur- 

 sues and abducts, as is said, negro women, Sec. Naturalists 

 have generally confounded it with the Ourang-Outang. When 

 domesticated he soon learns to walk, sit, and eat like a man. 

 We now separate the Gibbons from the Ourangs. 



HiLOBATES, Illig. 



The Gibbons have the long arms of the true Ourangs, and the 



low forehead of the Chimpanse, along with the callous buttocks of 



the Guenons, differing however from the latter in having no tail 



or cheek-pouch. They all inhabit the most remote parts of India. 



S. lar. L.; Buff. XIV, 2; Onho, Fred. Cuv. pi. 5 and 6, (The 



Black Gibbon) is covered with coarse black hairs, and has a 



whitish circle round his face. 



H. agllis, Fred. Cuv. pi. 3 and 4 j Petit Gibbon of Buffon, 

 XIV, 3, (The Brown Gibbon) is brown the circle round the 

 face is of a pale red ; the lower part of the back is of the same 

 colour. The young are of a uniform yellowish white it is 

 very agile, and lives in pairs its Malay name, Wouwou, is 

 taken from its cry. 



S. leucisca, Schreber, pi. 3, B, (The Cinereous Gibbon) 

 is covered with a soft and ash-coloured wool. The visage is 



(1) This is the Quojas morou or the Satyr of Angola of Tulpius, Avho gives a bad 

 fig-ure of it, (Obs. Med., p. 271) and the Pygmy, much better represented by 

 Tyson, (Anat. of a Pygmy, pi. 1,) copied by Schreber, pi. 1, B. Scotin had given 

 a tolerable drawing of it, copied Amjen. Acad. VI, pi. 1, fig. 3, and Schreber, 1, C. 

 An individual that lived with Buffon, and which is still preserved in the Museum, 

 is represented, though badly, in the Kist. Nat. XIV, 1, where he is called Jocko. 

 The same specimen is much better inLecat (Traite du Mouv. Muscl. pi. l,fig. 1), 

 under the name Quimpese. Audebert gives the same, but from the stuffed speci- 

 men only he calls it Pongo. 



