PAN 243 



Genl. Char. Hair, black, short and harsh ; head round ; ears very 

 large ; foreliead bald ; whiskers around face. 



Color. All black. 



Measurements. Total length, (dry skin), 4 ft. 2 in., hand, llj^ 

 in., foot, 10^ in. (Du Chaillu). Skull: total length, 182; occipito- 

 nasal length, 142; intertemporal width, 72; Hensel, 130.9; zygomatic 

 width, 140; breadth of braincase, 106; width of rostrum at canines, 

 61.8; extreme breadth of orbits, (outside), 118.6; palatal length, 72.4; 

 length of upper molar series, 40; length of mandible, 120; length of 

 lower molar series, 47. Ex type British Museum. 



The skull of the type is remarkable for the large size of the brain- 

 case and the short facial region, the latter being only a little over 

 one half the length of the former. The rostrum is short and broad; 

 the orbits are large and nearly round ; the orbital ridge prominent, 

 protruding forward in the center, and the nasals are very broad for 

 their length. The zygomatic arches are flat and not widely spread, and 

 the long palate is broad and of nearly equal width throughout the 

 length. Canines rather short. Mandible is short ; the ascending ramus 

 very broad. 



"The cry of the kooloo-kamba," says Du Chaillu, "is very differ- 

 ent from that of the T. calvus and Chimpanzee, resembling the syllables 

 'Kooloo,' which I have heard, and from which it derived its name 

 among the natives, — ^'Kamba' meaning 'to speak' among one tribe; 

 other tribes give to the animal only the name of 'Kooloo.' 



"This Ape was killed by me in the Ashankolo mountains. As I 

 was returning to our camp, I heard the cry of 'Kooloo Kooloo,' and 

 asked my guide what it was; he said it was a kind of 'man of the 

 woods,' which I had not seen before called 'Kooloo-Kamba.' It was 

 then too dark to go in search of the animal, but a little before day- 

 light next morning we got up and went toward the place where the 

 Ape had retired for the night. Daylight had nearly appeared, and I 

 began to fear that the animal had left, when I was suddenly startled 

 by the cry of 'Kooloo, Kooloo!' I looked above and saw the animal 

 on the tree on which it had spent the night, and there killed it. 



"It is very seldom this animal comes co near the coast, and as 

 we brought it to the camp it was a great object of wonder to the 

 men. It is said to live in the country much farther toward the moun- 

 tains of the interior. The stomach contained nothing but vegetable 

 food." 



