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Could any reliance be placed on the accounts of travellers, this animal must be 

 equal or superior to man in stature, but no part of it hitherto seen in Europe 

 indicates this extraordinary size. It inhabits Guinea and Congo, lives in 

 troops, constructs huts of leaves and sticks, arms itself with clubs and stones, 

 and thus repulses men and elephants. Naturalists have generally confounded 

 it with the Ourang-Outang. When domesticated, he soon learns to walk, sit 

 and eat like a man. We now separate the Gibbons from the Ourangs. 



HILOBATES, Illig. 



The Gibbons have the long arms of the true Ourangs, and the low forehead 

 of the Chimpanse, along with the callous seat of the Guenons, differing, how- 

 ever, from the latter in having no tail or cheek-pouch. They all inhabit the 

 most remote parts of India. 



S. lar., L. (The Black Gibbon) is covered with coarse black hairs, and has a 

 whitish circle round his face. There are three other species of the Gibbons 

 mentioned: H. Agalis of F. Cuv. ; S. Leucisca, Schrib.; and S. Syndactila, 

 F. Cuv. ; the latter has the second and third toes of the hind foot united by 

 a narrow membrane, the whole length of the first phalanx. 



CERCOPITHECUS, Erxl. 



The long- tailed monkeys have a moderately prominent muzzle (of about 60) ; 

 cheek-pouches ; tail ; callosities on the seat ; the -last of the inferior molares 

 with four tubercles like the rest. Numerous species, of every variety of size 

 and colour, abound in Africa, they live in troops, and do much damage to the 

 gardens and fields under cultivation. They are easily tamed, and several of 

 the species are small and beautifully variegated in colour, and of a mild and 

 gentle disposition. 



Simia rubra, Gm. (The Patras.) Red fawn colour above, whitish below ; 

 a black band over the eyes, sometimes surmounted with white from Senegal. 



The 



SEMNOPITHECUS, Fred. Cuv. 



Differs from the long-tailed monkeys, by having an additional small 

 tubercle on the last of the inferior molares. These animals inhabit eastern 

 countries, and their long limbs and very long tail give them a very peculiar 

 appearance. Their muzzle projects very little more than that of the Gibbons, 

 and, like them, they have callosities on the seat. They appear, likewise, to 

 have no cheek pouches ; their larynx is furnished with a sac. The one 

 longest known is the 



Sim. nemoBus, L. Remarkable for its lively and varied colouring; body and 

 arms grey ; hands, thighs, and feet black ; legs of a li vely red ; the tail and a 

 large triangular spot upon the loins, white; face orange; he has a black and 

 red collar, and tufts of yellow hairs on the sides of the head; inhabits Cochin 

 China. Another species, S. nasica, is remarkable for the very extraordinary 

 form of its nose, which is extremely long and projecting. This monkey in- 

 habits Borneo, where they live in large troops, assembling every morning and 

 evening on trees growing on the banks of the rivers ; its cry resembles the 

 words kah an, from which it is named. 



