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Nature,” it is enumerated as a second species of Homo; 
“ Hf. nocturnus.” Lucifer Aldrovandi is a copy of a figure in 
Aldrovandus, ‘ De Quadrupedibus digitatis viviparis,’ Lib. 2, 
p- 249. (1645) entitled “ Cercopithecus forme rare Barbilius 
vocatus et originem a china ducebat.” Hoppius is of opinion 
that this may be one of that cat-tailed people, of whom Nicolaus 
K6ping affirms that they eat a boat’s crew, “ gubernator 
navis”’ and all! In the “ Systema Nature” Linnzeus calls it 
in a note, Homo caudatus, and seems inclined to regard it as 
a third species of man. According to Temminck, Satyrus 
Tulpii is a copy of the figure of a Chimpanzee published by 
Scotin in 1738, which I have not seen. It is the Satyrus 
indicus of the “ Systema Nature,” and is regarded by Lin- 
nus as possibly a distinct species from Satyrus sylvestris. 
The last, named Pygmeus Edwardi, is copied from the figure 
of a young “ Man of the Woods,” or true Orang-Utan, given 
in Edwards’ ‘ Gleanings of Natural History,’ (1758). 
Buffon was more fortunate than his great rival. Not only 
had he the rare opportunity of examining a young Chim- 
panzee in the living state, but he became possessed of an 
adult Asiatic man-like Ape—the first and the last adult speci- 
men of any of these animals brought to Europe for many years. 
With the valuable assistance of Daubenton, Buffon gave an 
excellent description of this creature, which, from its singular 
proportions, he termed the long-armed Ape, or Gibbon. It 
is the modern Hylobates lar. 
Thus when, in 1766, Buffon wrote the fourteenth volume 
of his great work, he was personally familiar with the young 
of one kind of African man-like Ape, and with the adult of 
an Asiatic species—while the Orang-Utan and the Man- 
drill of Smith were known to him by report. Furthermore, 
the Abbé Prevost had translated a good deal of Purchas’ 
Pilgrims into French, in his ‘ Histoire générale des Voyages’ 
(1748), and there Buffon found a version of Andrew Battell’s 
account of the Pongo and the Engeco. All these data Buffon 
attempts to weld together into harmony in his chapter en- 
