174 SI MI A 



Inuus pithecus Less., Spec. Mamm., 1840, p. 99; I. Geoff., Cat. 



Primates, 1851, p. 31. 

 Macacus sylvanus Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Simiae, 1876, p. 115. 

 Pithecus inuus Reichenb., Vollstand. Naturg. Affen, 1862, pi. 



XXVIII, p. 143, fig. 409. 



BARBARY APE. 



Type locality. Africa. 



Geogr. Distr. Morocco and Algeria, North Africa. Introduced 

 on the Rock of Gibraltar in Europe. 



Color. Top of head ochraceous, grading on back of neck between 

 shoulders into buff yellow, the hairs tipped with black which in some 

 places forms streaks ; rest of upper parts streaked black and straw yel- 

 low ; sides of head grayish white, with an irregular black line from eye 

 to ear, caused by the tips of the hairs being massed together ; shoulders 

 like upper back, black and yellow ; sides of body and limbs gray, some 

 yellow mixed with the gray on the upper arms ; hands blackish brown; 

 feet grayish brown ; tail rudimentary, ears and face flesh color. 



Measurements. Skull : total length, 142.9 ; occipito-nasal length, 

 114.1; Hensel, 101.3; intertemporal width, 48.6; width of braincase, 

 69.3 ; median length of nasals, 18.9 ; palatal length, 58.7 ; length of upper 

 molar series, 37.7; length of mandible, 103.1; length of lower molar 

 series, 49.1. Ex specimen British Museum. 



Linnaeus in the Systema Naturae, 10th edition, 1758, p. 25, named 

 a monkey, which he stated came from Africa and Ceylon, Simia syl- 

 vanus, giving as the diagnosis of the species the following characters : 

 "S. ecaudata, clunibus tuberoso-callosis," and for his first reference, 

 Gesn. quad. 847. There is only one Macaque that can properly be said 

 to be tailless, the Magot of the French writers from Morocco and 

 Algeria in North Africa, and introduced on the Rock oif Gibraltar. 

 There are several species that have very short tails, but none of them 

 could properly be described as "ecaudata." In Gesner's work, His- 

 TORiA Animalium, on the page cited by Linnaeus, is a figure of a Ma- 

 caque without a tail, and as far as an uncolored drawing could, it 

 answers sufficiently well for the Barbary Ape. Of course it is not found 

 in Ceylon, but lapses in geography were not uncommon in the eighteenth 

 century, as indeed they have not been in much later times, and the old 

 Authors may not be held strictly accountable for the places and coun- 

 tries they give as the habitats of their species. Linnaeus had no per- 

 sonal knowledge of this Macaque, and so we find that he describes it 

 anew in his twelfth edition as Simia inuus, by which later name it has 

 generally been called, retaining at the same time his previous one of 



