RHE -BARBARY. APE. 
Macacus S¥YLvanus. Lacep. 
By the discovery of the preceding species M. Cuvier’s 
genus Inuus has been deprived of the support which it 
formerly appeared to derive from geographical distri- 
bution, being no longer isolated from the Indian 
Monkeys by its technical character taken from the 
absence of the tail. The insufficiency of the modifi- 
cations of this organ alone to characterize the larger 
divisions of the Monkey tribe has been so clearly 
established by M. Cuvier, that we cannot but in this 
instance make use of his own authority against himself, 
and merge the Barbary Ape in the genus Macacus, it 
being, to use his own expression, “ merely a Macaque 
with a small tubercle in place of a tail.” In every 
essential particular, both of physiognomy and form, the 
identity of character is too obvious to be overlooked. 
The Barbary Ape has been celebrated from the 
earliest times. It was probably the only tailless species 
