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wise provision in view of the habits of the animal, faciUtating 

 its movements, and enabhng it to take a broad and firm hold 

 in climbing trees, and in swinging from branch to branch, in 

 obedience to their instinctive propensities. 



" The adults cannot spread out their hands in the manner 

 of man, their fingers being contracted, and curved, by long use 

 in grasping. When this is the case it is impossible to extend 

 them upon the palm. The contractions are such, as to render 

 it necessary for them to rest on their knuckles, when they 

 walk on all fours, instead of the palms of their hands ; in 

 consequence of which, the cuticle upon these parts is very 

 much thickened and prominent. 



" The number of specimens of which I give the description 

 is four, viz., two males, and two females, one of which was 

 pregnant, and the other having a young male about a year 

 old. The latter was in my possession about two months, 

 having a wound in the left fore arm, of which it died. From 

 the adult specimens the following table of measurements has 

 been drawn up : 



Table of Measurements. 



