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GENUS. TROGLODYTES. 



Troglodytes GEOFF. Ann. du Mus. xix. 1812. 



Simla in part, ERXL. Syst. Regni An. 1777. 



Pithecus in part, Cuv. Regne An. 1829. 



Mimetes LEACH. 



GENERIC CHARACTERS. MUZZLE long, and truncated anteriorly; SUPRA- 

 ORBITAL RIDGES prominent, behind which the forehead recedes di- 

 rectly backward ; no CRANIAL RIDGES ; FACIAL ANGLE 35 ; EXTERNAL 

 EARS large and standing out; TAIL wanting; ISCHIATIC PROTUBER- 

 ANCES covered with naked callous skin, in the adult ; ARMS reaching 

 below the knee-joint ; FEET wide, the thumb extending to the second 

 joint of the adjoining toe, and always furnished with a nail; DENTITION 

 normal ; CANINES large, overpassing each other, their points being 

 lodged respectively in intervals of the opposite teeth; INTERMAXILLARY 

 BONES anchylosed to the maxillaries during the first dentition ; RIBS, 

 thirteen pairs ; no CHEEK-POUCHES ; LARYNGAL SACCULI small. 



COUNTRY. Western Africa, bordering the torrid zone, between lat. 12 

 or 14 north, and 10 south. 



THE CHIMPANZEE. 



TROGLODYTES NIGER. (Troglodytes niger, GEOFF. Ann. du Mus. xix. 1812.) 



Pongo and Engeco. . . . BATTEL, in Purchas's Pilgrims, ii. ' 1625 

 Barys, Baris, and Quojas Morrou, BARBOT, DAPPER. 1670, et aliorum. 



Homo Sylvestris TYSON, Anat. ofaPigmie, c. fig. 1699. 



Smitten^.} BOSMAN, Reise nach Guinea. 1708. 



Quimpese (?) M. DE LA BROSSE, Voy. 1'Angola. 1738. 



Chimpanzee SCOTIN'S Print. 1738. 



Baris or Barris, Pigmeus, Guineensis, and Chimpanzee, Descr. of some curious Creatures, &c. 



London, 1758, p. 6, c. fig. 



Troglodytes, Homo nocturnus, LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. 1766. 

 Simia Troglodytes .... SCHREBER, Mamm. fig. I. c. 1772. 



Simla Satyrus SCHREBER, fig., n. fig. n. B. 



Simla Agrlas SCHREBER, fig. IT. c. 



Simia Troglodytes .... GMELIN. 1788. 



Pongo BUFFON, Hist. Nat. Suppl. vii. 1789. 



Jocko AUDEBERT, Fam. i. sect. i. fig. 2. 1797. 



Pongo, or Great Black Orana, SHAW, Gen. Zool. 1800, vol. i. p. 9, c. fig. 



Simla Troglodytes .... BLUMENBACH, Handb. 1803. 



Simia Troglodytes .... KUHL, Beitr. 1820. 



Troglodytes niger .... DESMAREST, Mamm. p. 49. 1820. 



Simia Pan DONOVAN'S Natural Repository, No. 19. 1821 to 1828. 



Simia Troglodytes . . . . F. CUVIER, Diet, des Sc. Nat. xxxvi. p. 285, c. fig. 1825; et 



" Mammiferes." 



Simia Troglodytes .... FISCHER, Synops. Mamm. p. 9. 1829. 

 Pithecus Leucoprymna . LESSON, Illust. de Zool. pi. 31. 1836. (young). 

 Troglodytes niger .... LESSON, Species des Mamm. p. 37. 1840. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. Fur rigid and black; the hairs of the fore-arm reversed; hands 

 naked to the wrist ; ears large and patulous ; face naked, wrinkled, and blackish ; lips 

 and chin sprinkled with short white hairs. 



LOCALITIES. Sierra Leone, Guinea, Congo, Loango. 



DESCRIPTION. The skin of an adult male, not quite perfect, in the 

 Museum of the Zoological Society, presents the following characters : 



