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of South Africa ; but the yellow Pygmy (to judge from those which I have 

 seen) not only never has this feature exaggerated, l)ut, on the contrarv, 

 tends rather to a poor development of the buttocks, this adding considerabiy 



to his simian appearance ; for, as the late Professor Owen pointed out, the 

 anthropoid apes are '' bird-rumped," without the great development of tlie 

 gluteal muscles characteristic of man, and caused by his erect carriage of 

 the bodv. 



