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LONG-ARMED APE. 



Simia Lar. S. ecaudata, natibus calvis, brachiis longitudine corporis. 

 Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 2. 



Tailless black Ape (sometimes white), without callosities be- 

 hind., and with arms as long as the body. 



Homo Lar. Lin. Mantiss. pi. 2. p. 521. 



Simia Longimana. Schreber Saeugth. t. $./. 1. 

 Miller Cimelia Physica. t. 27. 



Grand Gibbon. Buff. Hist. Nat. 14. /. 2. 



Long-armed Ape. Pennant Quadr. p. 1 84. 

 Var. 



Petit Gibbon. Buff. Hist. Nat. 14. t. 3. 



Simia Longimana. Museum Lcverianum. 2. ?. 1. 



This is a species of a more deformed appear- 

 ance than the Oran Otan, and is distinguished by 

 the excessive length of its arms, which, when the 

 animal stands upright, are capable of touching the 

 ground with the fingers. It is a native of India 

 and some of the Indian islands, and grows to the 

 height of four feet or more. Its colour is black ; 

 but the face is commonly surrounded by a whitish 

 beard. This animal is well figured in Buffon; 

 and a smaller variety is finely represented in Mr. 

 Millars miscellaneous plates of Natural History. 



Variety.— -White gibbon. This is generally 

 considered as a variety of the former ; from which 

 it differs in being entirely white, except the face 

 and hands, which »are black. In the Leverian Mu- 

 seum is a most elegant specimen, which is figured 

 in No. 2 o£the Museum Leverianum. Our present 

 figure is also from the same specimen. What 

 seems to prove this to be a variety of the black 



