MAMMALIA — ORANG OUTANG. 



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say much. If the account of Grand Pry, and other travellers, can be relied 

 on, its intelligence seems to surpass that of the orang outang. Docility, 

 submissiveness, and an apparent melancholy, have marked the characters 

 of the few young specimens brought to Europe, rather than any mental 

 acuteness, surpassing that found in most of the species of the quadrumanous 

 race in general." This animal has been frequently taken, on the coast 

 of Africa, and carried to Europe. 



THE OKANG OUTANG. ^ 



The a\erage height of the species is from three to four and a half feet. 

 The body is covered with coarse red hairs. The forehead equals in height 



' Pithecus Saiyrus. The genus Pithccus embraces Simise, wth four incisor teeth above 

 and four below, canines two above, and two below, molars ten above, and ten below. 

 Canine teeth a little longer than the others; molars more square than in man, with tuber- 

 cles more prominent; head rounded; no superciliary ridge, at least in young individuals; 

 facial angle fifty to sixty-five degrees ; arms excessively long ; thumbs pretty short ; no 

 tail, or cheek pouches ; callosities on the buttocks in some species ; ears rounded, siinilar 

 to those of man. 



