S$ MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Apes. 



2, Orang-outang. — 2. Simla Satyrus. 1. 



Has no tail. Is of a rufty brown colour ; the hair on the fore-arms is reverfed, or Rands 

 upwards ; and the buttocks are covered with hair. Amoen. acad. vv68. tab. lxxvi. f. 4, 

 Homo fylveftris, or wild mail of the woods. Edwards, av. v. 6. tab. 213. — Orang-utang. Cam- 

 per, kort beright, Set. Amfterdam 1788. p. 8. 



Inhabits the ifland of Borneo. — Is about two feet high, and walks moftly erecl. The body and 

 limbs are univerfally covered with brown hair, about an inch long, which is thinlyinterfperfed with 

 reddifh hairs; the hair on the fore-arms, towards the wrifts, is reverfed, or lies with its points turn- 

 ed towards the elbow; the buttocks are covered with hair: The head is round, having a naked fore- 

 head; the margin of the mouth is hairy; the eye-laihes are black, the upper being longer and thicker 

 than thofe below ; and a range of tranfverfely placed hairs occupies the place of eye-brows: The 

 nofe is very fhort, and is covered with down: The palms of the hands are fmooth, and the thumb is 

 fhorter than the palm; the feet refemble thofe of man, except that the great toes are considerably 

 fhorter than the others, which are very long. 



Much as this fpecies refembles mankind, even poffeffing the os hyoides, it muft ftill be referred to 

 the genus of Ape, with which it agrees in Wanting the flat round nail on the great toes, and in the 

 ftructure of the larynx; befides thefe circumftances, it is evident, from the direction of the mufcles, 

 and from the whole figure of the ikeleton, that this animal is not defigned by nature for an erect 

 pofture. 



/3. Pongo. — Simla Satyrus Pongo. 



Has no tail, no cheek pouches, and no callofities on the buttocks ; walks always ered, 

 and is between five and fix feet high. Sm. BufF. viii. 77. 

 Homo fylveftris, f. Orang-outang. Bontius, Jav. 84. tab. 84. 



Inhabits the ifland of Java, and. the interior parts of Guinea. — Has no pouches within his cheeks, 

 no tail, and no callofities on the buttocks; which laft are plump and flefhy. All the teeth are fimi- 

 lar to thofe of man. The face is flat, naked, and tawny; the ears, hands, feet, breaft, and belly, 

 •are iikewife naked ; the hair of the head defcends on both temples in the form of trefles ; the hair 

 on the back and loins is in fmall quantities. It is five or fix feet high, and walks always erect on 

 the two hind feet. It has not been afcertained whether the females of this fpecies, or variety, are 

 fubjecl to periodical difcharges, but analogy renders this aimoft unqueftionable. This animal is, by 

 Dr Gmelin, confidered only as a variety of the orang-outang. 



y. Jocko. — Simla Satyrus Jocko. 



Refembles the former, but is only two feet and a half in height. Sm. Buffi viii. 86. tab. cdii. 

 Cyolock, De Vifme, Phil. Tranf. xiv. 73. tab. 3. — Homo fylveftris, Orang-outang. Tyfon, 

 anat. of a pigmy. 108. fig. 1. and 2. 



The one feen by the Count de Buffon was about two feet and a half high ; and, by the informa- 

 tion of his proprietor, was only about two years old. He walked always erect; his air was melan- 

 choly, his gait grave, his movements meafured, and his diipofitions gentle, without any of the mif- 

 cbievous tricks, impatience, malicioufnefs, or extravagance, of other apes, baboons, and monkeys. . 



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