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(Hylobates funereus] on the external sides of his limbs, while the 

 belly and contour of the face, and the inner parts, are of a blackish hue. 

 The Hylobates cinereus is of an uniform cindery-gray. He in- 

 habits the Sunda Islands, and principally Java, and numerous indi- 

 viduals of his species have been imported into Europe. His disposition 

 is gentle and affectionate ; he quickly familiarizes himself with the 

 persons who approach him. 



The genus Chimpanzee (Pithecus troglodytes) is by some later 

 naturalists preferred to that foremost place among the Quadrumana 

 in which Cuvier had installed the orang-outang. He certainly 

 approaches the nearest though longo intervallo to man, of all his 

 race. He was long confounded with other Anthropomorphous genera, 

 under the vague name of " Man of the Woods" (Homo sylvestris}. 

 It would appear to have been the Chimpanzee that Buffon had in his 

 " mind's eye" when describing his Jocko ; although that ideal variety 

 of shaggy men, with flat, oval visage, long legs, tall and erect figure, 

 which stands before us in the great naturalist's pages, bears but little 

 resemblance to the animal we have seen in the Zoological Gardens, or 

 the more faithful and judicious portrait drawn by modern travellers. 

 But the name of Jocko is evidently a corruption of that of Enge-eko, 

 which the negroes of the Gaboon bestow upon the Chimpanzee, just 

 as the latter appellation is an imperfect reproduction of that of Quim- 

 peze, in use among the negroes of Angola. 



Putting aside these speculations, we see that the only well-defined 

 species of this genus is the black Chimpanzee (Troglodytes niger of 

 the present nomenclature, Pygmea of Tyson). His home is the forests 

 of the Gaboon, the coast of Angola, and Guinea. His face is larger and 

 flatter than that of the orang. He has large ears, but shaped like 

 those of men. On the head, shoulders, and back, he wears a coat of 

 long black hair ; his legs are short, and his arms very long ; yet he 

 is better able to walk like a biped than the macaucos, or even the 

 orangs and the gibbons. Of all the Simidae, he alone has calves to his 

 legs. He has neither tail, ischiatic callosities, abajoues, nor thyroidian 



