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  SIMIA 
  

  

  Inuus 
  pithecus 
  Less., 
  Spec. 
  Mamm., 
  1840, 
  p. 
  99; 
  I. 
  Geoff., 
  Cat. 
  

  

  Primates, 
  1851, 
  p. 
  31. 
  

   Macacus 
  sylvanus 
  Schleg., 
  Mus. 
  Pays-Bas, 
  Simiae, 
  1876, 
  p. 
  115. 
  

   Pithecus 
  inuus 
  Reichenb., 
  Vollstand. 
  Naturg. 
  Affen, 
  1862, 
  pi. 
  

  

  XXVIII, 
  p. 
  143, 
  fig. 
  409. 
  

  

  BARBARY 
  APE. 
  

  

  Type 
  locality. 
  Africa. 
  

  

  Geogr. 
  Distr. 
  Morocco 
  and 
  Algeria, 
  North 
  Africa. 
  Introduced 
  

   on 
  the 
  Rock 
  of 
  Gibraltar 
  in 
  Europe. 
  

  

  Color. 
  Top 
  of 
  head 
  ochraceous, 
  grading 
  on 
  back 
  of 
  neck 
  between 
  

   shoulders 
  into 
  buff 
  yellow, 
  the 
  hairs 
  tipped 
  with 
  black 
  which 
  in 
  some 
  

   places 
  forms 
  streaks 
  ; 
  rest 
  of 
  upper 
  parts 
  streaked 
  black 
  and 
  straw 
  yel- 
  

   low 
  ; 
  sides 
  of 
  head 
  grayish 
  white, 
  with 
  an 
  irregular 
  black 
  line 
  from 
  eye 
  

   to 
  ear, 
  caused 
  by 
  the 
  tips 
  of 
  the 
  hairs 
  being 
  massed 
  together 
  ; 
  shoulders 
  

   like 
  upper 
  back, 
  black 
  and 
  yellow 
  ; 
  sides 
  of 
  body 
  and 
  limbs 
  gray, 
  some 
  

   yellow 
  mixed 
  with 
  the 
  gray 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  arms 
  ; 
  hands 
  blackish 
  brown 
  ; 
  

   feet 
  grayish 
  brown 
  ; 
  tail 
  rudimentary, 
  ears 
  and 
  face 
  flesh 
  color. 
  

  

  Measurements. 
  Skull: 
  total 
  length, 
  142.9; 
  occipito-nasal 
  length, 
  

   114.1; 
  Hensel, 
  101.3; 
  intertemporal 
  width, 
  48.6; 
  width 
  of 
  braincase, 
  

   69.3 
  ; 
  median 
  length 
  of 
  nasals, 
  18.9 
  ; 
  palatal 
  length, 
  58.7 
  ; 
  length 
  of 
  upper 
  

   molar 
  series, 
  37.7; 
  length 
  of 
  mandible, 
  103.1; 
  length 
  of 
  lower 
  molar 
  

   series, 
  49.1. 
  Ex 
  specimen 
  British 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Linnaeus 
  in 
  the 
  Systema 
  Naturae, 
  10th 
  edition, 
  1758, 
  p. 
  25, 
  named 
  

   a 
  monkey, 
  which 
  he 
  stated 
  came 
  from 
  Africa 
  and 
  Ceylon, 
  Simla, 
  syl- 
  

   vanus, 
  giving 
  as 
  the 
  diagnosis 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  the 
  following 
  characters 
  : 
  

   "S. 
  ecaudata, 
  clunibus 
  tuberoso-callosis," 
  and 
  for 
  his 
  first 
  reference, 
  

   Gesn. 
  quad. 
  847. 
  There 
  is 
  only 
  one 
  Macaque 
  that 
  can 
  properly 
  be 
  said 
  

   to 
  be 
  tailless, 
  the 
  Magot 
  of 
  the 
  French 
  writers 
  from 
  Morocco 
  and 
  

   Algeria 
  in 
  North 
  Africa, 
  and 
  introduced 
  on 
  the 
  Rock 
  of 
  Gibraltar. 
  

   There 
  are 
  several 
  species 
  that 
  have 
  very 
  short 
  tails, 
  but 
  none 
  of 
  them 
  

   could 
  properly 
  be 
  described 
  as 
  "ecaudata." 
  In 
  Gesner's 
  work, 
  His- 
  

   toria 
  Animalium, 
  on 
  the 
  page 
  cited 
  by 
  Linnaeus, 
  is 
  a 
  figure 
  of 
  a 
  Ma- 
  

   caque 
  without 
  a 
  tail, 
  and 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  an 
  uncolored 
  drawing 
  could, 
  it 
  

   answers 
  sufficiently 
  well 
  for 
  the 
  Barbary 
  Ape. 
  Of 
  course 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  found 
  

   in 
  Ceylon, 
  but 
  lapses 
  in 
  geography 
  were 
  not 
  uncommon 
  in 
  the 
  eighteenth 
  

   century, 
  as 
  indeed 
  they 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  in 
  much 
  later 
  times, 
  and 
  the 
  old 
  

   Authors 
  may 
  not 
  be 
  held 
  strictly 
  accountable 
  for 
  the 
  places 
  and 
  coun- 
  

   tries 
  they 
  give 
  as 
  the 
  habitats 
  of 
  their 
  species. 
  Linnaeus 
  had 
  no 
  per- 
  

   sonal 
  knowledge 
  of 
  this 
  Macaque, 
  and 
  so 
  we 
  find 
  that 
  he 
  describes 
  it 
  

   anew 
  in 
  his 
  twelfth 
  edition 
  as 
  Simia 
  inuus, 
  by 
  which 
  later 
  name 
  it 
  has 
  

   generally 
  been 
  called, 
  retaining 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  his 
  previous 
  one 
  of 
  

  

  