MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Apes. $j 



He was remarkably docile, and imitative of the actions of mankind, requiring only figns and words 

 to make him aft, while other apes require to be managed with blows; would prefent his hand to 

 vifitors; fat down at table, unfolded his napkin, wiped his lips, ufed a fpoon or a fork, poured his 

 liquor into i glafs, which he made to touch that of the perfon who drank along with him; would 

 bring a cup and faucer to the tea table, put in fugar, pour out the tea, and allow it to cool before 

 he drank. He eat almoft of every thing that was offered, but preferred ripe and dried fruits, and. 

 fweet-meats; drank a little wine, but fpontaneoufly left it for milk, tea, or other mild liquors. He 

 was troubled with a teazing cough ; lived one fummer in Paris, and died in London the following 

 winter. It is probable that this young animal, if pofTefTed of liberty in its native climate, would have 

 acquired, with age, the fame heights and dimenfions which travellers have afcribed to the Pongo, or 

 great Ourang-outang : Of courfe, till better informed, thefe two animals mull be confidered as con- 

 ftituting but one fpecies. 



In Mr Pennant's Synopfis of Quadrupeds, the two laft animals, and the Chimpanzee, are con- 

 fidered only as one fpecies, of which he gives the following defcription, under the name of great 

 ape. Has a flat face with a deformed refemblance of the human countenance ; ears exactly like 

 thofe of man ; the hair on the head longer than on the reft of the body ; the body and limbs arc- 

 covered with reddifh fhaggy hair, which is longeft on the back, and thinned on the fore-parts ; the 

 face and paws are fwarthy ; the buttocks are covered with hair. 



3. Great Gibbon. — 3. Simla Lar. $$. 



Has no tail. The arms are naked, and as long as the body ; the buttocks are naked. 

 Homo lar. Mantiff. pi. ii. p. 521. Miller on var. fub. of nat. hift. tab. xxvii. A. B. — Grand 

 gibbon. Sm. Buff. viii. 113. tab. ecliii. — Long armed ape. Penn. H. of Q;_n. 74. — Simia longi- 

 mana. Schreber, i. 66. tab. iii. 1. 



Inhabits India, particularly Coromandel, Malacca, Sumatra, and the Molucca iflands. — Of a mild 

 and flothful difpofition, impatient of cold and rain ; is about four feet high, of a black colour with 

 a fwarthy face, and approaches nearer to the manners of mankind than even the Orang-outang, be- 

 ing more inclined to the erect pofture. It is named Golok in India. There are flight calloflties on 

 the buttocks. The face is flat, brown, and furrounded with a circle of grey hair3 ; the canine teeth 

 are proportionally longer than thofe of man ; the ears are naked, black, and round ; the eyes are 

 large and funk ; the arms are fo- enormoufly long, that, when walking erect, he can reach the 

 ground without bending the body. The female has the catamenia. This animal is about three feet 

 high when ftanding erect, but fometimes grows to be as tall as a man ; it is of a tranquil difpofi- 

 tion and of gentle manners, receiving mildly what is given to it, and feeding, at leaft in confinement, 

 moftly on bread, fruits, and almonds. 



B. LefTer Gibbon. — Simia Lar minor. 



Refembles the former, but is much lefs, being only about a foot and a half high ; the 

 body and face are of a brown colour. 



Small gibbon. Sm. Buff*, viii. 113. t. ecliv. — LefTer long-armed ape. Penn. H. of Q^jn. 74. «.. 

 Miller's plates, xxvii. Schreber, 80. t. iii. f. 2. Lev. muf. 



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