422 Miscellaneous. 
because this name better expresses the characters common to all the 
species which would fall under it than either of the other two 
names. 
On a new Gorilla from Congo. By MM. Atxrx and Bovvrer. 
MM. Lucan and Petit have lately sent from Landana (Congo), as" 
part of the results of their hunting on the banks of the Kouilo, near 
the village of King Mayema, the skeleton and skin of an adult 
female gorilla, which possesses peculiar interest, both from its own 
nature and because it serves to confirm the recent discovery of this 
anthropoid in the above region. 
Although Battell, about 200 years ago, noticed the presence of 
great apes, apparently gorillas, in Congo, and in 1851 Dr. Ford 
maintained that this animal was met with from the Camaroons to 
Angola, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire in 1858 regarded their existence as 
demonstrated only on the shores of the Gaboon and the banks of 
the Moundah or Danger River. Since that date the researches of 
Du Chaillu, Marche, and the Marquis of Compiégne have carried 
the habitat of this great ape further south, as far as the Fernand- 
Vaz. In 1877 Dr. Falkenstein brought to Europe a young living 
gorilla, which he had purchased in the region of the Kouilo (4° 35' 
S. lat.) ; and one of the authors quite recently received the skin of a 
young female from the same locality. 
“‘ At that time,” they say, ‘‘ we did not think of separating this 
species from the type ; and, indeed, its youth could not allow of its 
furnishing satisfactory characters for specific separation. This, 
however, is not the case with the adult specimen which forms the 
subject of the present communication. 
“This female, which is aged, is remarkable as being of smaller 
size than the Gorilla gina; and its head is proportionally still 
smaller. It also differs in numerous characters, which we purpose 
to give in detail in the ‘ Bulletin’ of the Zoological Society of 
France, and which consist principally in the depth of the temporal 
fossee, the narrowness of the cranium behind the orbital arches, the 
narrowness of the interorbital space, and a greater prominence of 
the keel which rises in the middle of this space, the length and 
flattening of the zygomatic arches, and also a very noticeable dimi- 
nution of the height of the spinous apophyses of the first cervical 
vertebre. 
“‘ Its coat, grey and brown on the body, black on the limbs, with 
red parts on the head and pubis, does not differ essentially from 
that which several authors have rather vaguely described, except by 
a very sharp separation on the flanks between the brown of the 
belly and the grey of the back, and by the red tint of the pubic 
regions ; but it presents this remarkable peculiarity—that the back 
is thickly covered with long hair, contrary to what is seen in the 
other gorillas, in which the skin of this region is denuded and 
simply covered with short and worn hairs. 
