112 PROC. COTTESWOLD CLUB vol. xiii. (2) 



A quadruped, or more properly four-handed animal, 

 with fore-Hmbs longer than hind limbs ; the body covered 

 with a hairy coat ; the face somewhat of a bull-dog style. 



This animal walked somewhat clumsily on all-fours, 

 being rather troubled with its front hands, which still 

 retained the definite inward curve of the fingers, the 

 bough -grasping attitude. In consequence, the animal 

 would often rise on the hind limbs, using them for short, 

 rather unsteady walking. It would also rise on the hind 

 limbs in order to grasp, say fruit, and when feeding itself, 

 and in play, and in courtship, and .so forth. But the hind 

 limbs were too ill-adapted for sustaining the weight of the 

 body — the knees would not straighten out — the animal 

 had no muscles properly developed for the arduous duty 

 of balancing. There was no calf to the leg. 



On the long hind hands (feet) were opposable thumbs, 

 and well-developed fingers (toes) capable of considerable 

 independent, and fairly accurate movement. 



The front hands were short, broad, had short opposable 

 thumbs, and fingers not capable of accurate, independent 

 movement. 



The body was thin, rather long, covered on the back 

 with a dark reddish-brown, or in some cases, almost black 

 hair,* on the belly, with lighter coloured hair. But the 

 whole hairy coat tended to become lighter with age ; it 

 tended to get thin and fall off considerably, especially 

 from the chest, abdomen, and insides of limbs. f 



The posterior part of the body was bare, and, possibly, 

 as in Macacns rhesus, of a bright red colour, especially 

 in the female. 



* "Not infrequently the woolly coat of the [human] Embryo differs considerably in 

 colour from the later hair covering, Thus, for instance, sometimes it happens that in our 

 IndoGerman stock the children of blond parents are born covered with a dark brown or 

 even black woolly coat. After this has come off, then there appears the blond hair which 

 the child has inherited from its parents. Sometimes the dark coat remains for some 

 weeks, or even months, after birth." Haeckel, Anthropogenie, Ed. IV., Vol. II.. pag. 635. 



t Partial shedding of hair charactei izes mmy Anthropoids. 



