PAN 231 



1894. Meyer, in Abhandlungen und Berichte des Koniglichen Zoolo- 

 gischen und Anthropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu 

 Dresden. 

 Pan fuscus first described as Anthropopithecus fuscus. 



1904. Matschie, in Sitzungsberichte Gesellschaft Naturforschender 

 Freunde, Berlin. 



In this paper the Author discusses very briefly the proper 

 generic name for the Chimpanzees, and then gives a list of the 

 species he considers recognizable. He demonstrates that Lin- 

 naeus first described in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae 

 a Chimpanzee under the name of Simia satyra, although the Pan 

 (Simia) satyra of the 12th edition is an Ourang-utan. The 

 species given are as follows : P. satyrus from Southern Came- 

 roon, Gaboon, and Ogowe, with Gaboon as the type locality; P. 

 CALvus also with the same type locality, to Yaundi in south 

 Cameroon; P. vellerosus with Cameroon Mountain as type 

 locality, (though Gray gives none), and its distribution in 

 north Cameroon. P. schweinfurthi, with Troglodytes 

 MARUNGENSis Noack, as possibly synonymous, from Niam-niam 

 and ranging south to Massouga on the Albert Nyanza. P. 

 FUSCUS probably from the Gold Coast; P. leucoprymnus, from 

 coast of Guinea, probably Sierra Leone or western Liberia, and 

 may be the same as P. pygmaus Tyson ; and lastly P. chim- 

 PANSE from the Gambia region. The list is a tentative one, 

 for the Author appreciates fully the great difficulty that exists 

 in definitely discriminating the number of species that are 

 known to represent this genus, and this uncertainty constrains 

 him to write, when discussing (S.) calvus, "Die Farbung 

 andert wie bei 5. satyrus sehr ab ; es ist mir unmoglich, die 

 einzelnen Arten des Schimpanse nach der Farbung des Haark- 

 leides zu unterscheiden." If the color of the hair is not of a 

 specific value, and, as is certainly the case, that the skulls 

 present few if any reliable characters for separating examples 

 of Chimpanzees, little remains upon which species can be 

 designated. 



1904. W. Rothschild, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London. 



A critical review of Herr Matschie's paper on the Chimpanzees 

 and Ourangs. Five species and seven races are recognized as 

 follows under the genus Simia: S. vellerosus (Gray) ; S. v. 

 FULiGiNOSUS (Schaufuss) ; S. satyrus Linn.; S. s. schwein- 



