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as a subject for doubt by our most modern zoologists 5 

 it is much less in size, and has generally been pro- 

 cured from Malacca. There is a sixth species, some- 

 what allied except in colour, which, by older writers, 

 was also confounded with the long-armed gibbon ; it is 

 the Moloch or Wow-wow, the Hylobates leuciscus of 

 moderns. It inhabits the Moluccas, is entirely of a 

 grayish white, except the face, which is black, but 

 does not differ in general habit from its congeners. 



The only remaining animal we have to mention, as 

 embraced in this group, is also known under the name 

 of Wow-wow, but which is indiscriminately applied 

 by the natives of the Indian islands to several species 

 though they are distinguished from one another by 

 additional names. It is remarkably contrasted from 

 the others by its more pleasing shades of colouring 

 and surprising agility. We give a plate of the female 

 and young of 



