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certain. From every attention to tlie subject, we apprehend it 

 must appear that for the present it is better to allow the name 

 Troglodytes to remain unappropriated till we can be assured witli 

 greater certainty that we know the object Bontius has described and 

 Linnaeus had intended For the Rufous Ourang-Outang we would 

 retain the name Satyrus, because it has now become known by that 

 appellation, and for the greater perspicuity would assign some other 

 epithet to the Black kind instead of Troglodytes. We propose also 

 to appropriate a new specific character to each, founded upon pecu- 

 liarities which our own observations have afforded^ and which it is 

 presumed will be found sufficiently explicit to identify in future two 

 animals, which, though perfectly distinct, have been hitherto in a 

 great measure confounded. The Rufous Orang-Outang we should 

 distinguish as 



Sim I A Satyhus : ecaudata, ferruginea : aiiricuUs parvis : 

 h'achiis lo7igissimis, lacertoram pilis r ewer sis i 

 naiihus tectis. 



The Black Orang-Outang as 



SiMlA Pann: ecaudata^ nigra : auriculis 7nagnis ; bracJiiis sub- 

 elongatis, lacertorum pills reversis : natibus 

 tectis. 



* In a very valuable paper upon the Zoology of Sumatra, by Sir Thomas 

 Stamford Raffles, inserted in one of the last volumes of the Linnaean Trans- 

 actions, we find certain observations relative to this important tribe of 

 animals, that may encourage some hopes of a more satisfactory solution of 

 these doubts than naturalists possess at present. Sir T. S. Raffles speaks 

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