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The disposition of this species is said to be gentle, its 

 motions neither rude nor precipitate. It receives its food, 

 which consists chiefly of fruits, almonds, fyc, without 

 greediness and without impatience. It suffers much from 

 cold and from a low temperature, and seldom survives long 

 removal from its native country. The parts of the East 

 Indies in which it is most commonly found, are the coasts 

 of Coromandel, the peninsula of Malacca, and the Molucca 

 islands. It is probable also, that the Gibbon may be found 

 in some of the less southern provinces of India, travellers 

 having described an animal called Fefe, found on the fron- 

 tiers of China to which they attribute much of the charac- 

 ters peculiar to the simia lar. 



The ash-coloured Gibbon, or Wou-wou, was, we believe, 

 first noticed by Camper. It differs little from the simia lar, 

 except in colour. The arms are also said to be longer, and 

 the posterior callosities larger than those of the black Gibbon. 

 The extremities of the limbs are of a deeper colour than the 

 rest of the body. The individual described by Audebert 

 was twenty inches in height, but it is probable that the 

 average height of this and the preceding animal is about 

 the same. This appears to be the animal which Pennant 

 makes a variety of the great Gibbon, and which he saw in 

 possession of Lord Clive. Its disposition is naturally gentle, 

 gay, and frolicsome. 



There is also a species undescribedby our author, called the 

 little Gibbon, of which he says no further specimens were 

 to be found, at the time when the Re gne Animal was pub- 

 lished, and he could not determine whether it was a species 

 or variety. In a memoir, which he communicated formerly 

 to M. Latreille, Cuvier calls this Gibbon, I'orang varie, 

 from the difference of its colours. It is about one-third less 

 than the great Gibbon, but it has precisely the same form 

 and proportions. The face is surrounded with gray hairs, 

 forming altogether a circle different in shape from that of 



