18 Mr Grant's account of an Orang-Outang from Borneo. 



even in its native country, Borneo, and that great pains had 

 been taken for twenty years to procure one, before the indivi- 

 dual described by himself was caught. 



For the following description of the animal, freely translated 

 from the original Dutch of Wurmb, I am indebted to a learn- 

 ed friend. * " The head of the large orang-outang of Borneo 

 is somewhat pointed from without upwards. The snout pro- 

 jects, and on each cheek is a broad fleshy dewlap (Kwabbe) 

 which widens towards the side in proportion to the thickness of 

 the head. The ears are small, naked, and lie flat on the head. 

 The eyes are small and prominent. The nose, without being 

 remarkably raised, consists rather of two long separated aper- 

 tures sloping towards each other. The mouth has thick lips, 

 and has no pouches within. The tongue is thick and broad. 



" In each jaw in the front are four broad cutting teeth be- 

 tween two thick projecting canine teeth, situated higher in the 

 jaw. The face is of a blackish-brown colour, without hair, ex- 

 cept a very thin beard. The neck is very short. The breast 

 is much broader than the hips. There is no appearance of a 

 tail, nor any projecting callosities near the rump. The penis 

 appears to be retracted into the body. The hands are long, 

 and the palms, as well as the fingers, blackish-brown, and with- 

 out hair. The legs are short and thin, but strongly formed. 

 The feet are like the hands. The toes and fingers are set with 

 black nails like those of man, except the nails of the great toes, 

 which are much smaller and shorter, f This may perhaps arise 

 from their having been more used. The breast and back are 

 not bare, but all the remaining parts of the body, except those 

 already mentioned, are covered with brown hair, which in some 

 places is nearly a finger long. Under the skin of the neck and 

 breast were found two sacs, one of which covered the greatest 

 part of the breast, which, as well as a smaller sac which was 

 involved in the large, communicated with the windpipe.'". 



In a zoological work written by Mr Foucher D'Obsonville, 



* H. H. Wilson, Esq. Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Calcutta. 

 Note. — The nails on the great toes of the large Sumatran orang-ou- 

 tang (the hand and foot of which are in the Museum of the Asiatic So- 

 ciety,) are well-defined, and resemble in size and shape those on the other 



