328 MR. W. H. FLOWER ON THE ANATOMY [DeC. 9, 



The hair on the body is rather harsh in texture, long, loose, and 

 sparing in quantity, so that when separated the skin is readily seen. 

 It is particularly long on the shoulders, and stands out from the 

 body, giving great apparent fulness to all this part. On the back of 

 the neck and top of the head it is directed forwards, forming the 

 before-mentioned hood. 



An individual hair from the shoulder measures 3 inches in length. 

 The first inch from the root is very fine, and of a brownish-black 

 colour ; then it becomes thicker, and of a deeper black ; and in the 

 last half-inch it tapers to a point, and is of a dirty yellowish white. 

 Hair of this character covers the upper part and back of the head, 

 the neck, shoulders, back, arms, thighs, and tail, the terminal portion 

 on the posterior part of the body being pale yellowish brown. On 

 the forearm it is shorter, black tipped with white. On the legs the 

 black predominates. The dorsal surface of the hands and feet, in- 

 cluding the toes, is covered with short, perfectly white hair, through 

 which the black skin of these parts is scarcely seen. The throat, 

 breast, belly, and inside of the thighs are very sparingly covered with 

 fine, pale yellowish brown hair. The tail is entirely covered, to an 

 equal extent all round, with long, coarse, curved, black hair, tipped 

 with pale brown. The hair is longest and the tail appears thickest 

 near the body, and gradually tapers towards the end. I may here 

 observe that the curling condition of the hair so conspicuous in the 

 specimens in the British Museum, and in the figures referred to above, 

 is almost absent in this individual — a circumstance, as before said, pro- 

 bably due to the bad health of the animal for some time previous to 

 its death ; and hence the tapering instead of the bushy end to the tail. 



The hands are rather small. The thumb is short, and appears na- 

 turally to lie in the direction of the other fingers. Its extremity is 

 level with the distal end of the first phalanx of the second digit. The 

 second and fifth digits are of equal length, extending as far as ' the 

 distal end of the second phalanx of the third and fourth, which are 

 also of equal length. The nails are black, subcompressed, and 

 pointed, that of the thumb slightly more flattened, and broader at 

 the base, than the others. 



The sole of the foot is long and narrow ; the hallux well deve- 

 loped, widely separated from the other toes, with a flat, subtriangular, 

 pointed nail. In relative length the other toes stand in the follow- 

 ing order — second, fifth, third, and fourth ; but the difference between 

 them is not v-ery great. Their nails are long, curved, compressed, 

 and pointed. 



The orifice of the vulva is a narrow longitudinal cleft situated on 

 the lower part of the symphysis pubis. Immediately in front of it is 

 a subcylindrical and slightly tapering tongue-like clitoris, a quarter 

 of an inch long, and of a pink colour. On its under surface is a 

 groove continuous with the orifice of the vulva. The perinseura is 

 about ^ inch in length. 



The brain weighed, immediately after removal, 460 grains, or ^ig-th 

 part of the entire (very emaciated) body. The general form as seen 

 from above is a regular oval, nearly as broad before as behind (fig. 1). 



