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  SIMIA. 
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  SIMIA 
  Linn., 
  Syst. 
  Nat., 
  1, 
  1758, 
  p. 
  25. 
  Type 
  Swma 
  sylvanus 
  Linnaeus. 
  

   Inuus 
  E. 
  Geoff., 
  Ann. 
  Mus. 
  Hist. 
  Nat. 
  Paris, 
  XIX, 
  1812, 
  p. 
  100. 
  

   Sylvanus 
  Oken, 
  Lehrb. 
  Naturg., 
  3ter 
  Theil, 
  Zool., 
  2te 
  Abth., 
  1816, 
  

  

  p. 
  1223, 
  (nee 
  Latreille, 
  1807, 
  Coleopt). 
  

   Sylvanus 
  Virey, 
  Nouv. 
  Diet. 
  Hist. 
  Nat., 
  2nd 
  ed., 
  XXXI, 
  1819, 
  

  

  p. 
  275. 
  

   Pithes 
  (?) 
  Burnett, 
  Quart. 
  Journ. 
  Scien. 
  Lit. 
  and 
  Art, 
  XXVI, 
  

  

  1828, 
  p. 
  307. 
  

  

  Head 
  oblong 
  ; 
  face 
  elongate, 
  hairy 
  ; 
  hair 
  on 
  head 
  short 
  ; 
  tail 
  absent 
  

   externally. 
  

  

  The 
  genus 
  Simia 
  until 
  a 
  few 
  years 
  ago, 
  has, 
  since 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  

   Linnaeus 
  its 
  proposer, 
  been 
  associated 
  with 
  the 
  Ourang, 
  and 
  this 
  too, 
  in 
  

   spite 
  of 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  Linnaeus' 
  Simia 
  satyrus 
  of 
  the 
  10th 
  edition 
  of 
  his 
  

   Systema 
  Naturae, 
  was 
  a 
  Chimpanzee, 
  and 
  not 
  an 
  Ourang. 
  This 
  was 
  at 
  

   length 
  discovered 
  by 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild, 
  and 
  published 
  in 
  a 
  

   paper 
  on 
  the 
  great 
  Apes 
  in 
  the 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Society 
  

   of 
  London 
  in 
  1904. 
  

  

  But 
  the 
  Author 
  of 
  this 
  paper 
  in 
  his 
  selection 
  of 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  Simia 
  

   committed 
  the 
  error 
  of 
  choosing 
  the 
  S. 
  satyrus 
  Linn., 
  instead 
  of 
  the 
  

   next 
  species, 
  6*. 
  sylvanus 
  the 
  Barbary 
  Ape, 
  and 
  this 
  fact 
  has 
  been 
  

   pointed 
  out 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Thomas 
  in 
  his 
  paper 
  on 
  Linnaean 
  types 
  published 
  in 
  

   the 
  same 
  Journal 
  for 
  1911. 
  

  

  The 
  case 
  is 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  In 
  many 
  instances 
  Linnaeus 
  when 
  choos- 
  

   ing 
  a 
  generic 
  name 
  selected 
  for 
  his 
  term 
  a 
  specific 
  name 
  employed 
  by 
  

   some 
  earlier 
  writer, 
  and 
  this 
  species, 
  if 
  determinable, 
  would, 
  in 
  the 
  

   majority 
  of 
  cases, 
  become 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  the 
  genus. 
  Regarding 
  this 
  fact 
  

   there 
  would 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  little 
  or 
  no 
  divergence 
  of 
  opinion 
  among 
  

   Zoologists. 
  Linnaeus 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  instance 
  selected 
  Simia, 
  (which 
  

   he 
  made 
  to 
  include 
  all 
  Primates), 
  from 
  the 
  "de 
  Simia" 
  of 
  Gesner, 
  

   (Med. 
  Tigur. 
  Hist. 
  Animal, 
  1551-58), 
  which 
  is 
  the 
  Barbary 
  Ape, 
  and 
  

   this 
  is 
  the 
  proper 
  type 
  for 
  Simia, 
  thus 
  transferring 
  the 
  term 
  from 
  the 
  

   great 
  Apes 
  to 
  one 
  similar 
  to 
  the 
  Macaques. 
  This 
  procedure 
  may 
  be 
  

   regretted 
  by 
  Mammalogists 
  generally, 
  for 
  Simia 
  has 
  always 
  been 
  con- 
  

  

  