THE CHIMPANSEE. 
CLOSELY connected with the preceding animal is the large black ape, which is now 
well known by the name of CHIMPANSEE. 
This creature is found in the same parts of Western Africa as the gorilla, being 
very common near the Gaboon. It ranges over a considerable space of country, 
inhabiting a belt of land some ten or more degrees north and south of the torrid zone. 
THE CHIMPANSEE.—Troglodgjles Niger. 
For some little time it was supposed that the gorilla was simply an adult Chimpansee, 
but zoologists now agree in separating it from that animal, and giving it a specific 
name of its own. 
The title niger, or black, sufficiently indicates the colour of the hair which envelops 
the body and limbs of the Chimpansee. The tint of the hair is almost precisely the 
same as that of the gorilla, being nearly entirely black; the exception being a few 
whiter hairs scattered thinly over the muzzle. Age seems to give the hair of the 
animal a greyish tint in many places. As in the gorilla, the hair of the fore-arm 
is turned towards the elbow, where it meets the hair from the upper arm, and forms 
a pointed tuft. On the chest and abdomen it is rather thinner than on the remainder of 
