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THE CHIMPANZEE. 



CLOSELY connected with the preceding animal is the large black ape, which is 

 well known by the name of CHIMPANZEE. 



This creature is found in the same parts of Western Africa as the gorilla, being 

 very common near the Gaboon. It ranges over a considerable space of country, in- 

 habiting a belt of land some ten or more degrees north and south of the torrid zone. 

 For some little time it was supposed that the gorilla was simply an adult Chimpanzee, 

 but zoologists now agree in separating it from that animal, and giving it a specific 

 name of its own. 



THE CHIMPANZEE.- Troglodytes Niger. 



The little niger, or black, sufficiently indicates the color of the hair which envelops 

 the body and limbs of the Chimpanzee. The tint of the hair is almost precisely the 

 same as that of the gorilla, being nearly entirely black ; the exception being a few 

 white hairs scattered thinly over the muzzle. Age seems to give the hair of the animal 

 a grayish tint in many places. As in the gorilla, the hair of the fore-arm is 

 turned towards the elbow, where it meets the hair from the upper arm, and forms 

 a pointed tuft. On the chest and abdomen it is rather thinner than on the remainder of 



