86 MAN AND APES. 



character found in the highest apes, but 

 rather in the Semnopitheci, and in forms 

 approaching the Baboons. As to the face, a 

 beard and copious whiskers are not un- 

 known amongst apes. The male Orang 

 (Fig. 3) has a beard, and certain Cercopitheci 

 (e.g., the Diana Monkey, Fig. 14) have long 

 hair on the cheeks and chin. Nevertheless, 

 it is not in the highest apes, nor even in the 

 higher family, that we find a luxuriance in 

 this respect like what we may often find in 

 man. We must go for such luxuriance to the 

 New World apes — to the Sakis (see Fig. 28), 

 which are certainly not the highest forms 

 even of their own family, and which indeed 

 show a certain resemblance (e. g., in their 

 teeth) to the Lemuriod sub-order. 



The opposed directions of the hair on the 

 arm and forearm respectively (the apices 

 converging to the elbow) is the same in most 

 latisternal apes as in man. Nevertheless, in 

 at least one such ape (H. agilis) the hair of 

 the whole limb is directed uniformly towards 



