58o 



DR. ROMANES AND SALLY 



regarding this Ape as anything but a Chimpanzee. The animal 

 has the ways and manners of the Chimpanzee ; has a cry exactly 

 like that of A. troglod//tes ; does not beat her breast like a Gorilla 

 when annoyed. Anatomical knowledge, however, of this specimen 

 is at present wanting. 



Anthropo2nthecus calxus ^ seems to be at least as much entitled 

 to distinction as the last. It was originally described by du 



Fig. 277. — Young Orang-Utau. Simia satyrns. Zeitschrift filr Ethnologie [Anthropolog. 

 Gesellschaft), Bd. viii. (From Wiedersheim's Sfrv.ctiircofMan.) 



Chaillu ; but Dr. Gray who examined the skins thought that the 

 baldness was accidental, and then after this wise caution pro- 

 ceeded to describe, under the name of A. vellerosus, perhaps the 

 "worst" species of Chimpanzee that has been added to the 

 unnecessarily long list of " species " of Chimpanzees. To this 

 variety belonged " Sally " ^ of the Zoo, whose intelligence has been 

 celebrated by the late Dr. Eomanes. The form is characterised 



1 See also Duckworth, Proc. ZooL Soc. 1898, p. 989. 



2 For the structure of this Ape see Beddard, Trans. Zool. Soc. xiii. 1893, p. 177 : 

 and for experiments on her intelligence, Romanes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1889, p. 316. 



