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the Kamariim mountains.* Davernoy's remarks on 

 Troglodytes Tcliego, which he asserts to be a new 

 species, relate to an aged male specimen of which 

 the form is also doubtful. 



From the materials brought home by Du Chaillu, 

 Jeffries Wyman has sought to establish two new 

 species of anthropoids, the Nschiego Mbouve {Troglo- 

 dytes calvus) and the Koolu-Kamba (Troglodytes 

 Koolo-Kamha). I have vainly endeavoured to obtain 

 a satisfactory account of these two supposed new 

 species from the descriptions which are intended to 

 establish them. The whole matter is unfortunately 

 rendered more confused by the illustrations he sub 

 joins. That of the Nschiego Mbouve is only taken 

 from a very badly stuffed skin of a chimpanzee, 

 that of the Koolo-Kamba from the skin of a female 

 gorilla. But we may come to the general conclusion 

 that there are, in fact, not inconsiderable, and per- 

 haps even specific, variations from the ordinary type 

 of chimpanzee. 



Much was said in the years 1875 and 1876 of the 

 female apeMafuca (often erroneously termed Mafoca), 

 which was brought from the Loango coast and placed 

 in the Zoological Gardens at Dresden. This was 

 a wild, unmanageable creature, 120 cm. in height, 

 reminding us in many respects of the gorilla. The 

 face was prognathous ; the ears were comparatively 

 small, placed high on the skull, and projecting out- 

 wards; the supra-orbital arch was strongly developed ; 

 the end of the nose was broad ; and there were rolls 



* Catalogue of Monkeys, Lemurs, and Fruit-eating Bats in the 

 British Museum. Appendix, p. 127 : London. 1870. 



