222 GORILLA 



Gorilla beeingeri Matschie. 



Gorilla beringeri JMatschie, Sitzungsb. Ges. Naturf. Freund., Ber- 

 lin, 1903, p. 257 ; 1904, p. 51 ; Rothsch., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1904, p. 418; 1906, p. 465. 



Type locality. Kirunga, German East Africa. Type skull in 

 Berlin Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Kirunga, Ya Sabinyo Vovcano, German East 

 Africa. 



Genl. Char. The face is not so broad as either that of G. g. diehli 

 or G. g. jacobi, and is between these two in size and general characters. 

 The orbital ridges are raised nearly to a level with the top of the brain- 

 case and the orbits are nearly round ; two low frontal ridges run from 

 outer side of orbits and meet probably near the fronto-parietal suture. 

 I say probably, because the animal at some period of its life has 

 been injured and the ridge on the left side is distorted and turned 

 away from the true line ; there is a low occipital crest, and the occipital 

 outline forms an oblong shape not round as in G. g. diehli. The zygo- 

 matic width is moderate as in all Gorillas, the arch being nearly 

 parallel with the braincase, not flaring outward. The angle of the 

 occipital region is the same as in G. g. diehli, but the most striking 

 character of the inferior surface of the skull is the extremely long 

 bony palate which exceeds by 14 mm. either that of G. g. diehli, or 

 even G. gorilla, and is only 6 mm. shorter than the much larger G. g. 

 jacobi. The molar series are much larger than either of the forms 

 compared. The skull indicates an animal of about the size of G g. 

 diehli, but with a much narrower head though of about the same 

 length. 



Color. Male. Nose and top of head to occiput black, hairs tipped 

 with red, hairs being red at base then black and red tips ; hairs on 

 sides of head black banded with gray making this part much paler than 

 top of head ; shoulders, arms, hands, feet and under side of body 

 black ; hairs on hind neck are gray at base, then banded with red and 

 tipped with black ; a broad yellowish white band across back beneath 

 the shoulders ; rest of back, rump and legs, mixed gray black and 

 reddish, the hairs of which are very long being gray for basal half 

 then black with red tips ; whiskers and beard black. Ex type Berlin 

 Museum. 



Female and Young. Entire pelage thick and long, jet black. 



Measurements. Skull : total length, 320 ; occipito-nasal length, 

 256; Hensel, 196; zygomatic width, 164; intertemporal width. 74; 

 extreme width of orbits, 108 ; height of orbit, 52 ; width of orbit, 40 ; 



