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for docility or good temper; but, by force of dis* 

 cipline, is made to exhibit a greater degree of in-* 

 telligence than many others. Its colour is an 

 olivaceous brown, paler or whiter beneath : the 

 face is of a swarthy flesh colour. The hands and 

 feet have nails resembling the human, as in the 

 two former species. It is also destitute of any real 

 tail, but there is commonly a short skinny appen- 

 dix in the place of one. This animal is found in 

 Barbary, as well as in many of the lower parts of 

 Africa. 



PYGMY. 



Simia Sylvanus. S. ecandata, natibus calvis, capite subrotundo, 



brachiis bre-vioribus. Lin. 

 Tailless pale-brown Ape, with callosities behind, and with a 



roundish head. 

 Simia. Gen. Quadr. 847. Raii syn. Quadr. 149. 

 Cercopithecus. Jonst. Quadr. t. 59./. 5. 



Pitheque. Buff. Nat.' Hist. 14./. 84. and supp. 7. f. 2. 3. 4. 5* 

 Pygmy Ape . Pennant Quadr. p. 183. 



Var. ? 

 Alpin. Hist. Nat. JEgypt. t. 20. f. I. 



This is the smallest of the genuine Apes or 

 those destitute of tails. In its general appearance, 

 as well as in colour, it extremelv resembles the 

 Barbary Ape ; but is not larger than a cat, and has 

 a rounder or flatter face than the Barbary Ape* 

 This is supposed, by Mr. Pennant, to have been 

 the Pygmy of the ancients, which was said to 

 Wage war, at certain seasons, with the cranes. It 



