PAN 249 



Pan AUBEYi (Gratiolet et Alix). 



Troglodytes aubryi Grat. et Alix, Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat., 

 Paris, II, 1866, p. 1, pis. I, IX; Keith, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1899, p. 296. 



Simia vellerosus Matschie, Sitzungsb. Ges. Naturf. Freund., Ber- 

 lin, 1904, p. 64, (Part, nee Gray). 



Simia aubryi Rothsch., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1904, pp. 429, 430. 



Type locality. Gaboon. 



Geogr. Distr. Cameroon and Gaboon, West Africa. 



Genl. Char. "Hair black and short ; ears very small ; last lower 

 molar with five large tubercles as in Gorilla; eyes very wide apart." 

 Face adult, black. 



Color. Top of head bistre ; back of head black, hairs with bistre 

 tips; whiskers bistre; shoulders, arms, hands, chest, belly, and upper 

 part of back, black ; lower back and rump, legs and feet Prout's brown, 

 becoming grayish brown on thighs. Ex specimen Berlin Museum. 



Young. Black. 



Measurements. Height, 1,090; arms, 690, (skin). Skull: total 

 length, 210; (185) ; occipito-nasal length, 147.6; (142) ; intertemporal 

 width, 71.2; (72) ; length of braincase, 103 ; (114) ; width of braincase, 

 94.4; (106); Hensel, 136.5; (120.9); zygomatic width, 127.2; 

 (broken) ; median length of nasals, 21.5; length of rostrum, 77; width 

 of rostrum at canines, 64.3; (58.8); palatal length, 86.9; length of 

 upper molar series, 46.6; (46); length of mandible, 141.6; (126.7); 

 length of lower molar series, 53.1; (51.3). Ex specimen Berlin Mu- 

 seum. (Ex plaster cast in parentheses). 



I have not been able to find the type of this species. A plaster 

 cast of the skull is in the Paris Museum, and some dimensions of the 

 latter are given above. The original skull is said to be in the Academy 

 of Sciences. The description of the color of the fur is taken from an 

 example in the Berlin Museum. 



The plaster bust is life size, and is that of an adult animal. It is 

 colored evidently from nature, and has on the back cut into the 

 plaster "Troglodytes aubreyi, Janvier 1864, Stahl." The eyes of the 

 figure are closed, and I was informed it was a cast taken after death. 

 The coloring appears to have been done with much care. The ears 

 are placed high on the head, and with the face are flesh color ; the 

 end of the nose, however, about the nostrils is black. The head, and 

 the body below the nipples, and arms below the shoulders, are black. 

 The entire face is heavily wrinkled. 



