218 GORILLA 



Gorilla gorilla matschie Rothschild. 



Gorilla gorilla matschie Rothsch., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1904, 

 p. 415, figs, skull, 1906, p. 465. 



Type locality. Yaundi, Southern Cameroon. Type in Tring Mu- 

 seum. 



Genl. Char. Limbs shorter, stouter; hair longer; back and fore 

 part of legs grayer than in G. gorilla; crest of skull higher; skull 

 shorter. 



Color. Male. Top of head and nape mixed red and black ; sides 

 of face black speckled with yellow ; sides of neck, throat and chest 

 naked, belly speckled with yellow, red and black; legs and feet, arms 

 and hands black; lower part of hind neck and back gray. Ex type 

 Tring Museum. 



Female. Top of head reddish ; hair on sides of head, long, black ; 

 lower part of chest and belly black ; outer side of arms and legs black, 

 hands and feet black; back dark brown, lightest on rump. Ex type 

 Tring Museum. 



Measurements. Male. Height, 5 ft. 6 in. Skull : total length, 

 340 ; occipito-nasal length, 265 ; intertemporal width, 64.2 ; breadth of 

 braincase, 100.6 ; length of braincase, 125 ; Hensel, 49.7 ; zygomatic 

 width, 190 ; median length of nasals, 50.6 ; length of upper tooth row, 

 67.1; length of upper canines, 38.6; length of lower tooth row, 80; 

 palatal length, 126 ; height of crest at occiput, 53.3 ; length of mandible, 

 200. 



The skull has a broad face, orbital ridges elevated; nasals broad, 

 deep depression behind orbits ; at anterior end the crest commences and 

 rises above braincase, reaching its greatest breadth at occiput, where 

 it meets the broad, rather flat lateral expansions extending around the 

 braincase from the mastoid region ; braincase broad and of medium 

 length ; occipital edge rounded not pointed. This skull is of very large 

 dimension, massive in all its proportions, the brow rather high, raised 

 above the level of the braincase. Ex type Tring Museum. 



Gorilla gorilla diehli Matschie. 



Gorilla diehli Matschie, Sitzungsb. Ges. Naturf. Freund., Berlin, 

 1904, p. 52; Rothsch., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1904, p. 418, 

 figs, skull, 1906, p. 465. 

 Type locality. Northern Cameroon, West Africa. 

 Geogr. Distr. Oboni, Northern Cameroon, and Mokbe near border 

 of French Congo. West Africa. 



