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the right of the Gallery (between Pier-cases 95 and 98), conspicuous 

 among them being two remarkably fine male specimens, whose 

 projecting jaws, powerful teeth, and enormous brow-ridges give 

 them a ferocious and savage appearance, wholly unlike that even 

 of the lowest of men, or of their own young. 



In the corresponding Case on the left are the Chimpanzees 

 (Anthropopithecus niger and calvus) and Orang Outangs (Simla 

 satyrus)j the former being closely allied and very similar to the 

 Gorilla, and, like it, natives of the forests of Western and Central 

 Africa. The large male Orang in this Case shows very well the 



Fig. 5. 



Head of adult Orang Outang. 



peculiar shape of the cheeks, which are provided with thick fleshy 

 protuberances. The Gibbons (Hylobates) , far less man -like in 

 [Case 1.] every way, are exhibited in Case 1. Their remarkable variability 

 in colour, exemplified by the groups of H. pilealus and lar, should 

 be specially noticed. The Orangs and Gibbons are found in 

 Sumatra and Borneo, the latter extending also northwards to 

 Burmah, Assam, and the Island of Hainan. 



Passing now to the ordinary Monkeys, the first of the series 

 are the Cercopithecidte (Cases 2-6), comprising : (1) The long- 

 tailed Indian Monkeys (Semnopithecus) (Cases 2 and 3), of 



