THE BIACK OUANG. 09 



THE BLACK ORANG. 



Troglodytes niger GEOFFROY. 



PLATE I. 



Great Ape, Pennant. Troglodytes chimpanzee, Geoffroy Saint 



Hilaire, Annales du Museum, xix. p. 87 Troglodytes 



niger, Desmarets Mammalogie, page 49 Black Orang of 



Africa, Illustrations of Zoology by James Wilson* plate v. 

 fig. 2 Dr Trail, Transactions of Wernerian Society, 

 vol. in. p. 1. 



THIS singular animal has been mentioned by various 

 travellers under the names of Baris, Smitten, Quim- 

 pere, and Quojas-moras ; but the adult state remains 

 in even greater obscurity than that of its Asiatic re- 

 presentative, which we shall next endeavour to describe. 

 The relations of all travellers agree in the large and 

 powerful stature which this animal attains, and we 

 have every reason to believe that this is the fact, 

 though they are always so mixed up with the mar- 

 vellous, and with accounts of their habits and sagacity, 

 so different from the attributes of an animal, that we 

 must certainly consider them undecided without some 

 more direct testimony; and, from their apparent incor- 



