Memoir upon the Apes with imperfect Hands. Jl 



have been mistaken. Brown (History of Jamaica) also 

 speaks of an ape with tetraclactyloushands, the skin of which 

 is brown, and the tail strong and muscular. It is upon 

 these two authorities that I class this species in the cata- 

 logue of the niammiferce ; and I am besides led to do so, be- 

 cause I have not }et seen what may be regarded as a young 

 or a female atele. It also seems that in point of shape they 

 do not differ. 



Brown only mentions a few of its habits, which we have 

 already repeated. He adds that it exists in the continent of 

 America, and that it furnishes the greatest part of the food 

 of the Indians. It may be thus described : Ateles arach- 

 NOiDES ; ateles fusciis, palmis teiradactylis. 



4. The lelzelut, Brisson described it, but it has 

 been since forgotten. It has a round head, the muzzle 

 lengthened and prominent ; the ears like those of a ,man ; 

 the eyes black; the pupils of a flesh colour, which makes a 

 singular contrast with the rest of the figure of a red or 

 blackish brown; its lips are capable of great extension, and 

 furnished, like the chin, with white hairs. 



The direction of the hairs is, in some respects, diflferent 

 from that which exists in the coaita and chamek. Ou the 

 forehead they lie forwards, and they meet in opposition wiih 

 those in front ; the tufts of the cheeks incline towards the 

 ears, and partly conceal them : they are directed upwards 

 on the neck ; on the abdomen they are directed downwards, 

 and a little inclined to one side; on the lower belly they 

 are quite rough, which results from the crouching position 

 in which they sit so often ; the hairs of the fore-arm have a 

 similar direction to that which we remark in the orang ou- 

 tang. 



The hairs are black above, a little deeper upon the bot- 

 tom, a dirty white under the belly of our young subjects, and 

 of a yellowish white in the adult, according to Brisson, A 

 straight and red line indicates upon the whole length of the 

 flanks the meeting of the hairs of the upper parts with, those 

 of the abdomen. 



The naked part of the tail is flattened and transversely 

 ridged, but without callosities. 



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