246 PAN 
Simia satyrus schweinfurthi Rothsch., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1904, pp. 426, 429, 430. 
Type locality. Niam-niam country, Central Africa. 
Geogr. Distr. Soudan, into German East Africa, and on the west 
shore of Lake Tanganyika in Congo Free State, (Matschie). 
Genl. Char. Hair and beard very long; limbs long; head narrow 
and very high; face olive brown. 
Skulls from the type locality of sCcHWEINFURTHI compared with 
skulls of MARUNGENSIS exhibit no characters whatever to separate 
them. Simia pygmeus Rothschild with beard thick and long is not 
S. pygmeus Schreber which has a very short thin beard and is more 
like P. SCHWEINFURTHI. It would seem that (S.) pygmaeus Rothsch., 
combines two forms pygmeus Schreber, figure, and scHWEINFURTHI 
Giglioli. 
Measurements. Skull: total length, 194; occipito-nasal length, 
148.7; intertemporal width, 71.2; width of braincase, 115.6; length of 
braincase, 117.7; Hensel, 137.3; zygomatic width, 127.4; median length 
of nasals, 32.8; length of rostrum, 69; width of rostrum at canines, 
56.8; palatal length, 74.1; length of upper molar series, 41. This skull 
in the Berlin Museum came from Buom, Niam-niam, brought by 
Schweinfurth from the typical locality. | 
~ This apparently very distinct species was discovered by Herr 
Schweinfurth in the country of the Niam-niam in Central Africa and 
described by Professor Giglioli (1. c.) who gives, from Schweinfurth, 
the following account of this Ape: “It was getting well onwards 
towards night, and by the red glare of the pitch-torch which is the 
invariable resource of lighting the Niam-niam huts, I was getting my 
supper, in the simplicity of the primitive times of creation, off sweet- 
ened plantains and tapioca, when I was interrupted by a visit from 
some of the natives who lived close at hand. They had come to dis- 
pose of a collection of the skulls of the Chimpanzee, and I effected 
the purchase by means of some large copper rings. The people told 
me of the abundance of these creatures in the adjacent woods, and 
related a number of the adventures that had befallen them in their 
arduous attempts to capture them; they promised, moreover, to bring 
me some further contributions for my collection, but unfortunately I 
could not wait to receive them; we could not prolong our stay because 
of the scarcity of provisions, and we had to start betimes on the 
following morning. Altogether I made an addition of about a dozen: 
