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 THE LONG-ARMED GIBBON. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Front teeth in each jaw 4, placed near together. 



Ganine Teeth folitary, longer than the othersj diftant from the remain- 

 ing teeth, or grinders. 

 Grinders obtufe. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Tail-lefs Ape, bare behind, with extremely long arms- 

 Grand Gibbon, and Petit Gibbon. Buffon. t. 14. f. 92. /.2^3. 

 Long-armed Ape. Pennant. Hifi. ^tadr. f. 170. 



THE genus Simia, fo nearly allied in external appearance, as well as in- 

 ternal conformation, to that of Homo, contains fo great a number of 

 fpecies, that a complete and accurate defcription of the whole tribe is yet 

 amongft the defiderata of fcience ; and the difficulty of obtaining it is ftill 

 increafed by the great variety to which the fpecles are fometimes fubjeifl. 

 Of this the animal figured on the annexed plate is a remarkable inftance, 

 which, tho' generally of a uniform black, is fometimes, as in the fpecimcn 

 here reprefented, found entirely of a dull white, except the face and infide of the 

 hands, which flill retain the original colour. 



Notwithftanding the apparent ferocity and deformity of its figure, this 

 fpecies is of a more traftable and gende nature than mofl of its tribe, and 



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