188 PONGO 
upon a description and colored plate of an Ourang published by 
Edwards in his ‘Gleanings of Natural History.’ Hoppius never saw 
the specimen, and certainly had no knowledge whence it came any 
more than did Edwards, who supposed its native country was Africa, 
(p. 7), and Hoppius repeats this. Edwards’ specimen, which he states 
was then in the British Museum, and formerly belonged to the Sloane 
Museum, (but is no longer there), was a young animal, possibly not 
more than a year old, and only two feet high, (hence the name 
pygmeus), and had been “soaked in spirits” and had to be dried 
before a drawing could be made of it, and he states it was covered with 
reddish brown hair. Hon. Walter Rothschild in his paper in Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., (1. c.) says this specimen of Edwards’ had no 
cheek callosities, which was a self evident fact, as the animal was 
far too young to produce any such appendage. 
The above short history is all that is known of Simia pygmeus, 
whether it was a native of Borneo or Sumatra cannot be said, though 
at the date Edwards wrote, it would be more likely to come from the 
latter island than the former. It is impossible to form any idea as to 
what species it represents if the Sumatran and Bornean Ourangs should 
prove distinct, for Edwards’ figure gives no clue, and the species is 
quite undeterminable, and the name pycmMZus cannot be maintained 
unless the Sumatran and Bornean Ourangs should be proved the same, 
in which case pyGMuS, having been given to an Ourang, would have 
precedence. 
It will be seen from the above, Linnzus had nothing to do with 
the bestowal of the name PpYGMZUS. 
Schreber in his Saugthiere, gives a figure, uncolored, of an Ourang 
on plate II c, with the name Simia agrias at the bottom. This Author, 
however, never described an Ourang by that name, but in a footnote 
on page 65, in a quotation from Herodotus the word appears, “ayprat 
avdpes Kat yuvaixeo aypiw.’ The figure is that of a very young animal, 
and appears to have been preserved in spirits. 
Rothschild says it has cheek callosities, but there is not a vestige 
of these growths visible, the specimen was too young to produce 
them, and moreover appears to have been a female! 
Wagner places his Simia agrias on page 56, vol. V, among the 
synonyms of Simia satyrus = Ponco pycmzus. Tiedemann, Zool., 
1808, p. 329, bestowed the name wurmbi upon an Ourang from Borneo 
in the possession of, and described by Frederic v. Wurmb, (Ver- 
handl. Batav. Genootsch. Deel.2, B1. 245). Von Wurmb’s description 
indicates very clearly an Ourang, and Tiedemann, who probably knew 
