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Moykeys, properly so called, 
Or those of the eastern continent, have the same number of grin- 
ders as Man, but otherwise differing from each other by characters, 
which have formed the grounds of the following subdivisions. The 
Sita, Erxl.—Pitruecus, Geoffr. 
The Ourangs(1) are the only monkeys of the ancient continent 
which have no callus on the buttock; their hyoid bone, liver and 
czcum resemble those of Man. Their nose is not prominent, they 
have no cheek-pouches, nor a vestige of a tail. Some of them have 
arms long enough to reach the ground when standing—their legs, 
on the contrary, are very short. 
S. satyrus, L.; Audeb., pl..23; Fr. Cuv. pl. 2.. (The Ourang- 
Outang.)(2) Of all animals, this Ourang is considered as ap- 
proaching most nearly to Man in the form of his head, height 
of forehead, and volume of brain; but the exaggerated descrip- 
tions of some authors respecting this resemblance, are partly to 
be attributed to the fact of their being drawn from young in- 
dividuals only; and there is every reason to believe, that with 
age, their muzzle becomes much more prominent. The body 
is covered with coarse red hair, the face bluish, and the hinder 
thumbs very short compared with the toes. His lips are sus- 
ceptible of a singular elongation, and possess great. mobility. 
His history has been much disfigured by mingling it with that 
' of the other great monkeys, that of the Chimpansé in particu- 
lar. After a strict and critical examination, I have ascertained 
rica and India, have been transferred to those of America. The genus Papio, 
founded solely on the shortness of the tail, could not be retained, as it violated 
natural. affinities, and all the others required subdividing. It was also necessary 
to abolish the genus Ouistitis, which was comprised in that of the Sagouins, but 
which does not altogether correspond with the common characters of the other 
monkeys. 
(1) Orang is a Malay word signifying reasonable being, which is applied to man, 
the ourang-outang, and the elephant. Outang means wild, or of the woods; hence, 
Wild Man of the Woods. 
(2) The only good figure of the Ourang-Outang we had for a long time was that 
of Vosmaer, taken from a living specimen at the Hague. That of Buffon, Suppl. 
VIII, pl. 1, is every way erroneous ; that of Allamand (Buff. d’Holl. XV, pl. 11,) is 
somewhat better—it was copied in Schreber, pl. 2, B. That of Camper, copied ib., 
pl. 2, C, is tolerably exact, but is easily discovered to have been taken from the 
dead body. Bontius, Med. Ind. 84, givesa completely ideal one, although Linnzus 
took it for the type of his troglodyte (Amen. Ac. VI, pl. 1,41). There are some 
good ones in Griffith, and in Krusenstern’s Voyage, pl. 94 and 95, but all of them 
from young subjects. 
Vou. I1.—H 
