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The latter five of the above species are referrible to the genus 

 proposed by Mr. Gould, on December 23, 1834, (Proceedings, Partii. 

 p. 147,) under the name of Aulacorhynchus . 



The following " Observations on the Habits, &c. of a male Chimpan- 

 zee, Troglodytes niger, Geoff., now living in the Menagerie of the 

 Zoological Society of London, by W. J. Broderip, Esq., V.P.Z.S., 

 F.R.S., &c.," were read: — 



" The interesting animal whose habits in captivity I attempt to 

 describe, was brought to Bristol in the autumn of this year by 

 Capt. Wood, from the Gambia coast. The natives from whom 

 he received it, stated that they had brought it about one hundred 

 and twenty miles from the interior of the country, and that its 

 age was about twelve months. The mother was with it, and, ac- 

 cording to their report, stood four feet six inches in height. Her 

 they shot, — and so became possessed of her young one ; and those 

 who have seen our animal will well understand what Dr. Abel 

 means, when, in his painful description of the slaughter of an Asi- 

 atic Orang (Pithectis Satyrus, Geoff.), he observes that the ges- 

 tures of the wounded creature during his mortal sufferings, the hu- 

 man-like expression of his countenance, and the piteous manner of 

 his placing his hands over his wounds, distressed the feelings of those 

 who aided in his death, and almost made them question the nature 

 of the act they were committing. During the period of his being 

 on ship-board, our Chimpanzee was very lively. He had a free range, 

 frequently ran up the rigging, and showed great affection for those 

 sailors who treated him kindly. 



" I saw him for the first time on the 14th instant, in the kitchen 

 belonging to the Keeper's apartments. Dressed in a little Guernsey 

 shirt, or banyan jacket, he was sitting child-like in the lap of a 

 good old woman, to whom he clung whenever she made a show of 

 putting him down. His aspect was mild and pensive, but that of a 

 little withered old man ; and his large eyes, hairless and wrinkled 

 visage, and man-like ears, surmounted by the black hair of his head, 

 rendered the resemblance very striking, notwithstanding the de- 

 pressed nose and the projecting mouth. He had already become 

 very fond of his good old nurse, and she had evidently become at- 

 tached to her nursling, though they had been acquainted only three 

 or four days ; and it was with difficulty that he permitted her to go 

 away to do her work in another part of the building. In her lap he 

 was perfectly at his ease ; and it seemed to me that he considered 

 her as occupying the place of his mother. He was constantly reach- 

 ing up with his hand to the fold of her neck-kerchief, though when 

 he did so she checked him, saying " No, Tommy, you must not pull 

 the pin out." When not otherwise occupied, he would sit quietly in 



