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DR. ROMANES AND SALLY 



regarding this Ape as anything but a Chimpanzee. The animal 

 has the ways and manners of the Chimpanzee ; has a cry exactly 

 like that of A. troglodytes ; does not beat her breast like a Gorilla 

 when annoyed. Anatomical knowledge, however, of this specimen 

 is at present wanting. 



AntJiropopithecus calvus ^ seems to be at least as much entitled 

 to distinction as the last. It was originally descril^ed by du 



Fig. 277.— Young Orang-Utan. Siinm satyrus. Zeitschrift fdr Etlinologie (Anthropolog. 

 GeseUsdiqft), Bd. viii. (From Wiedersheim's Structure of Man.) 



Chaillu ; but Dr. Gray who examined the skins thought that the 

 baldness was accidental, and then after this wise caution pro- 

 ceeded to describe, under the name of A. vellerosus, perhaps the 

 "worst" species of Chimpanzee that has been added to the 

 unnecessarily long list of " species " of Chimpanzees. To this 

 variety belonged " Sally " - of the Zoo, whose intelligence has been 

 celebrated by the late Dr. Eomanes. The form is characterised 



' See also Duckworth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 989. 



' For the structure of this Ape see Beddard, Trans. Zool. Soc. xiii. 1893, p. 177 ; 

 and for experiments on her intelligence, Romanes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1889, p. 316. 



