1 88 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



This genus contains tliose Apes which stand highest, next to 

 Man, in the animal kingdom. This proximity, however, refers 

 only to his external conformation and his anatomical structure. 



The Chimpanzees approach very closely to the Gorilla in 

 structure. Indeed the Gorilla was at first placed in the same 

 genus as the Chimpanzee, which was much earlier known to 

 science than its larger cousin, although an excellent description 

 of the Gorilla, under the name of Pongo, was brought to this 

 country by Andrew Battell, an English prisoner of the Portu- 

 guese in Angola, early in the seventeenth century, and pub- 

 lished in "Purchas his Pilgrimage," in 1613, a story which 

 for the first time referred definitely to the Chimpanzee. 



The body is heavily built, but shorter and less robust than 

 that of the Gorilla. The crown is depressed, and the supra- 

 orbital ridges, from which rise stiff strong eye-brows, are pro- 

 minent, but not remarkably so. The eye-lids are wrinkled, and 

 their margins set with eye-lashes. The nose, of which the ridge 

 is shorter than in the Gorilla, is depressed in the middle, flatter 

 at the extremity, and, as in the last-named species, is furrowed 

 longitudinally, its nostrils looking more downward and for- 

 wards. The lips are extremely mobile and protrusile, the upper 

 one broad and the lower one retreating from the mouth, and 

 not forming a true human-like chin, though it is more promi- 

 nent than in the Orang, The cheeks are more wrinkled than 

 in that Ape. The ears are large and projecting from the side 

 of the head, and often carry a lobule. They are strangely like 

 those of Man, and, as Mr. Darwin has remarked, the Chim- 

 panzee never moves or erects its ears, so that they are equally 

 rudimentary, as far as that function is concerned, as in Man. 

 The shoulders and chest are broad, and indicate great strength. 

 Their lower limbs are longer in proportion than in the Orang. 



