THE CHIMPANZEES. 19$ 



Troglodytes tchego^ Duvernoy, Arch. Mus., viii., p. 8 (1855). 

 Anthropopitheais troglodytes^ Flower & Lydekker, Mamm., p. 

 736, fig. 357 (1891). 



Characters. — Face, ears, hands, and feet dark-reddish flesh- 

 colour, or more rarely of a blackish-brown colour; in general 

 the colour of the hair is wholly black, except on the upper and 

 lower lips, where it is white and very short, and in the region 

 of the buttocks, where it is washed with reddish-brown. 



Hair on the body straight and silky, with coarser hair inter- 

 spersed ; on the top of the head it lies smoothly to each side, 

 away from a median line; round the face it forms bushy 

 whiskers, extending down into a slight beard; it encroaches 

 on the brow, leaving only a triangular central space naked ; on 

 the upper and lower lips are short, bristly hairs; the rest of the 

 face naked and much wrinkled ; on the shoulders, the back, 

 and the hips, the hair is longer than elsewhere ; the back of 

 the hands and feet are thinly haired, the fingers and toes nude. 

 The margin of the ears is often folded in for the greater part 

 of its length. 



The skin of the body is of a peculiar light, yet muddy, flesh- 

 colour, sometimes verging on brown. Brownish or black 

 spots on many parts of the body seem to vary in different 

 individuals. 



The expression of the face is grave, but less melanclioly and 

 pre-occupied than in the Orangs. 



The weight of the brain in A. troglodytes varies from 61- to 

 6| ounces. 



This celebrated Man-like Ape has been known, by vague re- 

 port at least, for nearly three hundred years. The earliest clear 

 account of its existence, however, is derived from the " Strange 



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