PLATE LVIL 



Both these animals it will hence be perceived are tailless ; the 

 clifierence in colour is niaterial ; the Simia Satyrus being ferrugi^ 

 uoiis varying to rufous, Simia Pann black and somewhat glossy. 

 The ears of S. Satyrus are small in comparison with those of man, 

 to which they bear a close resemblance ; in S. Pann the ears are 

 ample, spreading, a.nd larger in proportion than in the human frame. 

 The comparative length of the arms in those two animals offers 

 another very important distinction ; in Simia Satyrus when the 

 animal stands erect with the arms down, the tips of the fingers 

 usually reach to tlie ankle, and from the several skeletons v/e have 

 seen in the College of Surgeons, London, in the Museum of Anatomy 

 in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, and in the collection of 



of a white variety of the Siamaiig of the Malays, and of a dirty yellowish 

 white kind of Simia Lar, both of v/hich, were the arms shorter, might he 

 reconciled in some degree to the Homo Troglodytes of Linnaeus. But 

 besides these, we collect from this Zoological dissertation that there is cer- 

 tainly another race of Orang-Outangs with which we are at present unac- 

 quainted. *' Native information (says Sir T. S. Rafiles) gives reason to be- 

 lieve that it f Simia Satyrus J exists also in Sumatra (as well as Borneo). It is 

 there known by the name of Orang-Pandeck (Pigmy), and the accounts 

 agree exactly with the Orang-Outang of Borneo. It is frequently con- 

 founded with the Orang Kubu and Orang Gugu, which, though often the 

 subject of fable and exaggeration, appear to exist on the island as a race of 

 men almost as hairy and wild as the real Orang-Utan, v. 13. p. I. j). It is 



probably in this last mentioned race, and not in the Rufous Orang-Outang 

 of Borneo, or the Black species of Angola, that future naturalists may iden- 

 tify the true Homo Troglodytes of Linnjeus, and the animal of Bontius 

 upon the authority of which he has described it. The literal meaning of 

 the term Orang-Outang in the language of the Malays is a wild man, from 

 Orang wild or savage,^ and Outan man. And since, as it now appears, 

 three, if not a greater number of different animals may have been con- 

 founded under that name, Bontius may have been correct according to his 

 information ; the error lies with subsequent authorities, who have supposed 

 that name peculiar to the animal uow distinguished by the appellation of 

 Simia Satyrus, 



