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at the Gaboon two new species of Chimpanzees. One, called by the 

 natives NshUgo-Mbouve', and to which he gave the scientific name of 

 Troglodytes calvus, builds for himself some leafy screens of quite 

 artistic construction upon isolated trees. He is smaller than the 

 ordinary Chimpanzee, and bald. 



The other species distinguished by M. Du Chaillu* is the Kooloo- 

 Kamba. He is distinguished from all his congeners by a very pecu- 

 liar cry. While offering a general resemblance to man, he approaches 

 him more nearly in certain respects than all the other known apes. 

 His head is very remarkable, and presents a curious analogy to that of 

 an Esquimaux or a Chinese. His face is hairless, and wholly black. 

 The forehead is loftier than that of any of his congeners, and the 

 capacity of his skull is also greater in proportion to his height. A 

 wider space occurs between his eyes than is customary with the 

 great Simiadse. He has a flattened nose, high projecting cheek-bones, 

 hollow cheeks, and a well-marked orbitary arch. The muzzle is less 

 prominent, and larger in proportion than that of other apes. Both 

 sides of his face are ornamented with straight tufts of hair, which, 

 joining below the chin like whiskers, communicate a strange human 

 character to the whole countenance. His arms descend below his 

 knees. All the body is hairy. The shoulders are broad, the hands long 

 and narrow, and well adapted for climbing trees. Both arm and hand 

 are exceedingly muscular ; the abdomen is very prominent. The ample 

 ears rather resemble those of a man than the ears of any other ape. 



Our peregrinations now bring us to the giant of the Quadrumana, 

 the true king of the forests of Equatorial Africa ; in a word, to the 

 Gorilla, whom Buffon has described under the name of Pongo, almost 

 as exactly as he pictured the Chimpanzee under that of Jocko. 



We cannot be said to have known the Gorilla for more than a 

 quarter of a century. 



It was in 1847 that Dr. Savage, an American missionary, recog- 

 nized the Pongo as a species of the genus Troglodytes, distinct from 



* Du Chaillu, "Travels and Adventures in Equatorial Africa" (London, 1863). 

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