AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. 81 
Glancing in many a giddy maze, 
O’er the green waters, merrily, 
Speak not to me, thou bird of the billow, 
Of a coral bed and wavy pillow. 
Through the wide ocean’s vast expanse, 
Where e’er the billow bursts in foam, 
These spectre birds lead on the dance, 
And find in every wave a home. 
False Peterel farewell, thy tale’s untrue, 
Danger is past—our port is in view. 
HABITS AND MANNERS OF A FEMALE BORNEO ORANG- 
UTAN, AND A MALE CHIMPANZEE. 
By J. E. Warwick. 
TuE great interest and curiosity excited by the recent 
exhibition of the Chimpanzee and the Borneo Orang- 
Utan; and a suggestion which has been made to me, that 
the opportunity I possessed of being constantly with them 
should be made productive of some result, have induced 
me to mark and note down the manners and dispositions 
of these interesting specimens of the animal kingdom; and 
I now submit the following, in the hope that it may be 
acceptable to many of your readers, very few of whom, 
probably, have ever seen the animals whose singular ha- 
bits I am here attempting to describe. 
On the first sight of the two specimens, the difference 
was so remarkable as almost to excite a doubt whether 
they belonged to the same genus. The most striking 
points of distinction were the length of the facial angle in 
the female, or Borneo Orang (Simia Sityrus;) the singular 
smallness of the ear, and its close resemblance to that of 
the human species; the pear-shaped head; the nose but in 
a slight degree elevated; the nostrils narrow and oblique; 
the extreme length of the arms, the use made of them in 
walking, the animal resting the hands on the ground, and 
swinging as if on crutches; the hair of a reddish brown, 
very short, and but slightly scattered over the body; the 
abdomen exceedingly protuberant; the feet long, with the 
largest toe peculiarly short, but exhibiting a perfect nail; 
these were the striking peculiarities on the first sight of 
the female; while the Chimpanzee (Simia Troglodytes) 
exhibited a marked contrast in the general character of 
its form, presenting a much nearer approach to that of the 
human race. Its conformation comprises all those points 
of resemblance which characterise the Orang-Utan, be- 
sides other instances of approximation which in that ani- 
mal are not observable. The form of the head, the intel- 
lectual superiority that distinguishes the cast of the fea- 
tures; the proportionate length of arm to that of the body; 
the larger and perfect thumb; the roundness of the thigh; 
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the perfect feet, and the consequent upright mode of 
walking; the complete formation of the last joint of the 
great toe; the quality of the sounds which it occasionally 
utters;—all these are points which at once strike the 
observer, denoting the superiority of the Chimpanzee 
over the Borneo Orang-Utan, as well as the widely differ- 
ent characters that distinguish them. 
I must here confess myself unable to give you a scienti- 
fic description of the animal: it is simply my intention to 
detail some of those peculiarities and habits, which few 
but myself have had an opportunity of observing. 
On the occasion of their introduction to each other, it 
was curious to notice in what way they would act; not 
having seen any of their class for many months, and being 
so distinct in character, and natives of different quarters of 
the globe. On their being placed on the floor together in 
a private apartment, they stood at some distance from each 
other, resting on their knuckles, in evident contempla- 
tion of the new form they now saw for the first time. 
They then approached nearer, smelling each other very 
sensibly; the female protruded her prominent lower 
lip, touching the lip of the male, but without any smack or 
noise. This was done apparently without any expression 
of joy or mutual attachment, but merely as an act of re- 
cognition of two of the same tribe meeting in a foreign 
land; nor was I ever afterwards able to discover the least 
sign of tenderness or attachment to each other; but, on the 
contrary, a decided inclination to keep aloof, especially on 
the part of the female, whose timidity allowed the male to 
take from her hands any dainty that might have been 
given to her, with great reluctance on her part, but with 
evident fear of repelling the insult. On the experiment 
being tried of forcing them to sleep in the same cage, a 
battle took place, of which it was not afterwards deemed 
advisable to risk a repetition. 
The companionable and sociable habits of the Chimpan- 
zee far exceeded those of the female, as did his knowledge 
of persons whom he was in the habit of seeing. On first 
approaching him on a morning, or after being absent from 
him a short time, he would utter a loud cry of recognition; 
and, running towards you, would stand perfectly erect, 
spreading his arms to be taken up, when he wouid put 
them round your neck in the manner of the fondest em- 
brace; nor was it an easy task, for those to whom he was 
attached, to leave the room, except by stealth. Food, on 
the other hand, was the only object that would cause any 
attachment, or even locomotion, in the female; of whom 
it might be said, that her appetite was the mainspring of 
all her actions, to which a protuberance and rotundity 
bore ample testimony. In feeding, the greediness of the 
female was evinced by her laying her body over the dish, 
