22 ZOOLOGICAL SKETCHES. 



Stamford Raffles discovered a nose-ape, the Borneart 

 representative of the genus Scmnopithecus, a big, long- 

 tailed brute with a truly Roman proboscis and the nar- 

 row nostrils of the Caucasian race. In proportion to 

 his size the white-handed capuchin-monkey of Western 

 Guiana has a higher forehead than the two-legged in- 

 habitants of his native woods; and the anatomist Cam- 

 per demonstrated that with respect to the length of the 

 tail-bones immortal man forms the connecting link be- 

 tween the lower apes and the orangs. The Arabs who 

 question the human pedigree of the beardless Ethiopian 

 would have to hail the wonderoo as a man and brother ; 

 and the male orang-outang, too, can boast of a chin-tuft 

 that would do credit to a modern senator. With the 

 exception of her expressive eyes, the face of the female 

 orang is the most outrageous caricature of the Medicean 

 paragon; man-like lineaments are, indeed, by no means 

 a characteristic of the higher apes, and in that respect, 

 at least, some of the macaques and Colobi would per- 

 haps be the true anthropoids; but even the grotesque 

 physiognomies of the South-American flat-noses are 

 always redeemed by some strikingly human feature. 

 The skinny spider-monkey has a mignon mouth and 

 delicate white teeth, the little marmoset parts its hair 

 in the middle, and the red howler (Mycetes ursinus) has 

 the ear of a Spanish maya— every fold, every dimple of 

 the rim, a perfect fac-simile of the corresponding parts 

 of the human auricle. 



