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the larger species as appears by the figure. The top or 

 crown of the head is blacker than the body. It has a small 

 beard and whiskers. The four feet are covered with 

 grayish hairs, like those of the great Gibbon ; but the hair 

 of the head, of the upper part and sides of the neck, the 

 anterior portion of the back, the shoulders, the arm, the 

 fore-arm in the external side, are brown, not black. The 

 under part of the neck, the internal facing of the fore-arm, 

 the breast, the belly, the thigh, the sides of the body, and 

 the leg, properly so called, are not black, but of a gray 

 mingled with brown. The superior portion of the back* 

 and the crupper, are gray. This disparity of colours does 

 not proceed from the difference of sex, as the two indivi- 

 duals of the great and lesser kinds, described by Daubenton, 

 were females. It may perhaps result from the difference of 

 age. The little Gibbon was brought from the peninsula of 

 Malacca, the great one from Pondicherry. Erxleben, and 

 other naturalists, have regarded the first as but a variety 

 of the second ; Pennant describes it and calls the lesser 

 long-armed ape, simia lar minor, Kebes Linnaeus. The 

 figure of this species, from the pencil of Major Charles 

 Hamilton Smith, to whose abilities and liberality the 

 graphic part of this work stands very highly indebted, is 

 from a specimen in M. Temminck's museum at Amsterdam. 

 Another species of the long-armed apes, discovered since 

 our author's work was published, is The Siamang, (Simia 

 Syndactylies, Raffles, Tr.Linn.Soc. XIII. p. 241. — F.Cuvier.) 

 The general description of this Gibbon accords with that 

 of the others of this sub-division of the apes ; it seems there- 

 fore only necessary to advert to those particulars wherein 

 it differs from its congeners ; the most prominent of these 

 is, probably, that the first and second fingers of the hinder 

 extremities are united as far as the middle of the second 

 phalanx ; the colour is black all over, without the white 

 circle about the face ; it has two loose naked folds of skin on 



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