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to be resting from its wild gambols. In spite of some 

 slight errors,* the illustration faithfully reproduces 

 its general and quite original character, and espe- 

 cially the expression of its countenance. From the 

 structure of the brain Bischofif attempted to show 

 that this animal was simply a chimpanzee. No 

 rational explanation can be attached to this sug- 

 gestion. 



If, while Mafuca was still alive, I had examined 

 the dead body of the female gorilla of which I have 

 already spoken, and which was of about the same 

 age, I should have been still more disposed to regard 

 Mafuca as a true gorilla. The general physio- 

 gnomical resemblance between these animals was 

 very great. As I have mentioned in detail in my 

 earlier works, the female gorilla had a high upper 

 lip, and a somewhat small nose. Mafuca's upper 

 lip is undoubtedly still higher, but otherwise the 

 physical correspondence between the two animals 

 is very great. The hands of the female gorilla are 

 still broader than those of Mafuca; and indeed, 

 Brehm proposes to classify the latter animal as 

 a new slender-handed species of anthropoid. The 

 assumption which I have already contested in the 

 earlier pages of this work, that the female type 

 should be placed in the foreground in describing 

 the species, is especially untenable in the case of the 



* For example, the ears are represented as somewhat too 

 small. Although the growth of hair on the crown of the head 

 makes them look larger, the want of proportion must be admitted. 

 It might easily have been altered, bat I preferred to reproduce 

 the original sketch as it stood. 



