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instances they reach India, and the Barbary ape passes 

 the European boundary, and may be looked on as the 

 extreme limit of the family in that direction. The 

 form again most typical to India, is seen in the long- 

 armed apes or Gibbons, (Hylobateti Illiger,) approach- 

 ing the orangs somewhat'in structure, found exclusively 

 in the islands and continent, stretching northward in 

 the Chinese dominions, but not existing in any land 

 that can be allied to the continent of Africa. 



The Indian islands possess another very singular 

 animal in the proboscis monkey, (Nasalis, Geoftroy,) 

 which, to the form of the orangs, joins a considerable 

 length of tail ; but the greatest peculiarity is the shape 

 of the nose, which is prolonged to an extraordinary 

 degree, and can be compared to nothing so justly, as 

 some of the pasteboard masks, which may be daily 

 seen at the windows of our fancy toyshops. Extend- 

 ing our researches farther in the Asiatic continent, we 

 find, in the western district of China, another curious 

 form, furnished with long arms and tail, but of rather 

 graceful proportions, with a fur of rich colouring, 

 destitute of the bare callosities, and possessing some- 

 what the flattened face of the American monkeys. 

 It is the Chinese monkey, and constitutes Illiger's genus 

 Lasiopaga. Some zoologists ascribe the Island of 

 Madagascar as another abode of this animal, but we 

 strongly suspect, that, however allied in resemblance, 

 it will prove distinct. But the most interesting form 

 to these continents, is the orangs, common to both, 



