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Simia satyrus schweinfurthi Rothsch., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1904, pp. 426, 429, 430. 



Type locality. Niam-niam country, Central Africa. 



Geogr. Distr. Soudan, into German East Africa, and on the west 

 shore of Lake Tanganyika in Congo Free State, (Matschie). 



Genl. Char. Hair and beard very long; limbs long; head narrow 

 and very high ; face olive brown. 



Skulls from the type locality of schweinfurthi compared with 

 skulls of MARUNGENsis exhibit no characters whatever to separate 

 them. Simia pygmcrus Rothschild with beard thick and long is not 

 5". pygmceus Schreber which has a very short thin beard and is more 

 like P. SCHWEINFURTHI. It would seem that {S.) pygmceus Rothsch., 

 combines two forms pygmcrus Schreber, figure, and schweinfurthi 

 Giglioli. 



Measurements. Skull : total length, 194 ; occipito-nasal length, 

 148.7; intertemporal width, 71.2; width of braincase, 115.6; length of 

 braincase, 117.7; Hensel, 137.3; zygomatic width, 127.4; median length 

 of nasals, 32.8; length of rostrum, 69; width of rostrum at canines, 

 56.8; palatal length, 74.1 ; length of upper molar series, 41. This skull 

 in the Berlin Museum came from Buom, Niam-niam, brought by 

 Schweinfurth from the typical locality. 



This apparently very distinct species was discovered by Herr 

 Schweinfurth in the country of the Niam-niam in Central Africa and 

 described by Professor Giglioli (1. c.) who gives, from Schweinfurth, 

 the following account of this Ape: "It was getting well onwards 

 towards night, and by the red glare of the pitch-torch which is the 

 invariable resource of lighting the Niam-niam huts, I was getting my 

 supper, in the simplicity of the primitive times of creation, off sweet- 

 ened plantains and tapioca, when I was interrupted by a visit from 

 some of the natives who lived close at hand. They had come to dis- 

 pose of a collection of the skulls of the Chimpanzee, and I effected 

 the purchase by means of some large copper rings. The people told 

 me of the abundance of these creatures in the adjacent woods, and 

 related a number of the adventures that had befallen them in their 

 arduous attempts to capture them ; they promised, moreover, to bring 

 me some further contributions for my collection, but unfortunately I 

 could not wait to receive them ; we could not prolong our stay because 

 of the scarcity of provisions, and we had to start betimes on the 

 following morning. Altogether I made an addition of about a dozen 



