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THE ACTIVE GIBBON. 

 Hykbates agilis. F. CUVIER. 

 PSATB V. 



L Wov-wow, Frederic Cuvier, Histoire Naturette dei 

 Mammiferes. Hylobates agilis, the Active Gibbon, Griffith, 

 Animal Kingdom, vol. v. Le Gibbon Brun, Cuvier, Regne 

 Animal, vol. L p. 90. 



THIS very active animal inhabits the forests of 

 Sumatra, where it is known under the name of 

 Ungaputi, It appears to have been first noticed by Sir 

 Stamford Raffles, to whom specimens were brought by 

 MM. Diard and Duvancel, who were for many years 

 in the pay and employment of this most assiduous 

 naturalist. These gentlemen also sent specimens to 

 the Paris Collections, which served as copies for Fre- 

 deric Cuvier, in his great and elegant work upon the 

 ' Mammalise, and which we have freely used in the 

 progress of our present little volume. M. Duvancel 

 also sent to Paris descriptions, which were used for 

 the above-mentioned work, and which are now 

 .united with what information- we have been able to 

 procure elsewhere. 



