K0.1577. }rA}DfALS COLLECTED L\ WESTER X BORXEO—L VOX. 571 



particularly one female, had the second and third toes joined in the 

 manner of Symjphalangus, but neither in voice nor appearance was 

 there any other resemblance. — W. L. Abbott.] 



PONGO PYGMiEUS PYGMiEUS (Linnaeus). 



1703. Simla pygimeus Linn.eus, AuKjenitates Acaclemicse, VI, p. 68. 

 1904. Pongo pygjnaeus pygma;us,IioTKSCHii,B, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1904, II, 

 p. 4.38. 



Twenty-six specimens, namely, three skins with skulls from Sungei 

 Sama, and twenty-three skulls without skins from along the Sakaiam 

 River. The odd skulls were obtained from the dwellings of natives 

 (Dyaks) who had used the animals for food. Tliis collection of skulls 

 has been very carefully studied by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka," Assistant 

 Curator, Division of Anthropology, United States National Museum, 

 and no remarks on them are here necessary. The general color of 

 the skins is nearest Ridgway's chestnut or burnt sienna, darkest on 

 the head and back; in places, as at the extremities, and especially 

 around the buttocks, the color passes into ferruginous. The scant 

 hairs on the underparts are not different in color from those of the 

 back. Cat. No. 142170, U.S.N.M., has the hairs under the chin fer- 

 ruginous. The tlu-ee skins are somewhat darker in color than are 

 skins from Sumatra in the United States National Museum. The 

 hair is long, coarse, and shaggy, attaining its greatest length (120-130 

 mm.) on the back. External measurements of the two adult females, 

 Cat. Nos. 142169 and 142170, U.S.N.M.: Head and body, 720, 785 

 nun.; liind foot, 290, 283; weight, 70 lbs. (31.75 kg.) "gutted," 

 75 lbs. (34 kg.). 



[It was apparently the wrong time for orangs along the lower 

 Kapuas. No wild fruit, but the natives said there were plenty 

 during the rains of January, etc., and especially when the durians 

 and rambutans were ripe, said they were close to the kampongs 

 [villages]. Up the Sakaiam they were scarce. I saw many old 

 sarongs up the Landak, about 50 miles above Pontianak, but no orangs. 

 Was afterwards sorry I did not make a longer stay there, as the 

 country thereabouts was magnificent forest, with scarcely any inhab- 

 itants.— W. L. Abbott.] 



a Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXI, 190C, pp. 539-568. 



