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A Description of two additional Crania of the Engé-ena (T'ro- 
_glodytes gorilla, Savage), a second and gigantic African 
species of a Man-like Ape, from Gaboon, Africa. By Jur- 
FRIES WYMAN, M.D.* 
The evidence now existing of a second and gigantic African 
species of man-like ape, as appears from published reports, 
consists of the following remains :—1. Four crania in the 
United States, two males and two females ; of a large portion 
of a male skeleton; and of the pelvis, and of some of the 
-bones, of afemale. These were the first remains of this ani- 
mal which had been brought to the notice of naturalists, and 
were described in the Boston Journal of Natural History.t 
2. Three other crania subsequently discovered, exist in Eng- 
land, and have been made the subject of an elaborate memoir 
by Professor Owen, in the Transactions of the Zoological So- 
ciety of London.t 3. Quite recently, Dr George A. Perkins, 
for many years an able and devoted labourer in the mission- 
ary enterprise at Cape Palmas, West Africa, has brought to 
the United States, two additional crania, one of which is de- 
posited in the Museum of this Society, and the other in that 
of the Essex Institute in Salem. Both of these have been 
referred to me for the purpose of description, and it is the 
object of this communication, to notice the more important 
anatomical features of this, the largest of African Quadru- 
mana, with regard to which additional information is desired. 
Cranium 1.—Male.—This belonged to an adult Enge-ena,§ 
as is evident from the fact, that the teeth are all perfectly 
* Read before the Boston Society of Natural History, Oct. 30, 1849. 
t See Proceedings of the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., August 18, 1847; also a 
Description of Characters and Habits of Troglodytes gorilla, by Thomas 8. 
"Savage, M.A., Corresp, Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. ; and of the Osteology of the 
same, by Jeffries Wyman, M.D., Boston Jour. Nat. Hist., vol. v., p. 417, 1847. 
t Osteological contributions to the Natural History of the Chimpanzees (7'ro- 
glodytes, Geoff.), including the description of the skull of a large species (7. 
gorilla, Savage), discovered by Thomas §. Savage, M.D., in the Gaboon country, 
West Africa; by Professor Owen, F.R.S., F.Z.5., &e. Read, Feb. 22, 1848. 
Trans. Zoolog. Society of London, vol. iti. p. 381, 1849, 
§ Professor Owen designates 7, gorilla as the “ Great Chimpanzée.” The 
Mponges (natives inhabiting the banks of the Gaboon), call this species the 
Engé-ena, a more desirable name, as the term Chimpanzée has been always as- 
sociated with the black or smaller species. 
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