364 Savage and Wyman 



Hah. Africa. 



External characters. " All short of five feet in height. 

 Thickly covered vv^ith coarse black hair varying from one to 

 two and a half inches in length ; most abundant on the back 

 beginning at the ears, and on the arms at the shoulders, and 

 increasing downwards; thinnest on the chest about the 

 mammae, upon the disc of the abdomen and on the inner side 

 of the arms ; thickest and at the same time shortest upon the 

 anterior and superior portions of the cranium, (which is much 

 flattened) and increasing in length as it descends posteriorly. 



"The chin covered rather thickly with gray hairs from | to| 

 inch in length ; the face from the mouth superiorly as far as 

 superciliary ridges almost entirely naked, and the skin re- 

 markably shrunken and shrivelled, even in the youngest sub- 

 jects, presenting, to a nearly equal degree in all, the aspect of 

 extreme old age. 



" One specimen was very old, a female ; the most palpable 

 marks of her age were a mottled appearance of the face — teeth 

 very short, worn down by use — grayness and dryness of the 

 hair generally, and the prominence and definiteness of the 

 superciliary ridges. 



" Upon the sides of the face were a few scattered hairs, 

 increasing in number, length, and blackness, towards the ear, 

 presenting in their contour the appearance of bushy whiskers. 

 The nose was pointed and perfectly flat, lying on a plane with 

 the adjacent portions of the face. 



"The superciliary ridges in all, remarkably prominent. 

 In the true representation of this feature every figure of the 

 animal that I have seen has failed. It is a palpable charac- 

 teristic constituting an important mark of difference between 

 this, and the red or Asiatic ourang; the greatest projection 

 rather exceeded 3-4 of an inch. 



" The back of the fingers of the four extremities bare, ex- 

 cepting the first joint, where the hair commences and is directed 

 upwards as far as the elbow. It takes the same direction 

 along the back of the thighs ; on all other parts of the body 

 it is directed downwards. 



