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trials to health and patience, the expenses and the trouble in- 
curred by the professional collector in the jungles of Borneo, or 
in the swamps of Central Africa, to make it possible for them to 
have the chance of obtaining the desired specimen, they should 
be willing not only to give the price asked, but more also “for 
the good of the cause.” 
The order in which the animals are enumerated, and the 
names used for them, are, for convenience of reference, as far 
as practicable, in accordance with Dr. P. L. Sclater’s ‘ List of 
the Vertebrated Animals now or lately Living in the Gardens of 
the Zoological Society of London,’ 9th edition, 1896. 
The prices throughout are quoted in pounds sterling, or where 
necessary shillings. 
Class MAMMALIA. 
Order PRIMATES. 
Family Simp. 
The prices at which Anthropoid Apes change hands are most 
variable, so much depends on the health and probability of life 
of the animal. £100 may be asked for a Chimpanzee, which 
some days later may be only worth the price of its uncleaned 
skeleton. 
£40 to £75 may be taken as the value of a healthy young 
Chimpanzee in Europe. 
I have never been offered the chance of buying a Gorilla, nor 
of an Orang-utan or a Gibbon (in Kurope), so cannot quote any ~ 
prices. On the Suez Canal one sometimes gets exceptional 
opportunities ; I once purchased a nearly full-grown male 
Orang-utan for £6, and at another time a young female for 
£14. 
Family CERCcOPITHECIDA. 
Newly imported Monkeys of the commoner and smaller species 
of this family may be frequently purchased for from fifteen 
shillings (or even less) to £1 each. 
Of the genus Semnopithecus (or Presbytis), practically the only 
species that is imported at all regularly to Europe is the Entellus 
or Hantmaén Monkey, best known as the Langar: on arrival 
they may be bought for £2 apiece, but I have no doubt that a 
really acclimatized specimen, if put up for sale, would fetch a 
much higher price. 
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