42 LECTURE 11. 



sorts of wine, t>ut preferred Malaga. After eating-, 

 it always wiped its mouth, and when presented 

 with a toothpick, always used it in a proper man- 

 ner. This animal lived seven months in Holland, 

 and was brought from the island of Borneo. 



Two other very remarkable species of Ape are 

 those called the long-armed Apes, or Gibbons. One 

 of these is of a black colour, with the arms of such 

 a length, that the tips of the fingers touch the 

 ground when the animal stands upright. It is a 

 native of India, and grows to the height of about 

 three feet. It is remarkable for having been once 

 placed by Linnaeus, in one of the earlier editions 

 of the Sy sterna Nature, under the genus Homo, 

 having been considered at that time as being still 

 more nearly related to the Human race than even 

 the Oran Otan, It was the Simia Lar of Linnasus, 

 and is finely represented in Miller's Miscellaneous 

 plates of Natural history*. The other species of 

 Gibbon, or long-armed Ape, differs from the pre- 



* But besides tliis animal, Linnaeus, in some editions of the 

 Systema Naturae, once introduced a species under the name oi 

 Homo Nocturmis, which was evidently no other than the Oran 

 Otan, indistinctly described, with various circumstances of aggra- 

 ■vation, from certain voyages and travels. 



