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preserved in the Museum of Natural History at Paris than in the 

 example preserved in the College of Surgeons hi London, the tints 

 more foxy, and the hair upon the head less inclining to blackness; 

 the skin also in the Parisian specimen appeared to be of a much 

 lighter tint than in the specimen preserved in England, the tint of 

 which was a dark blueish lead or iron grey. Through the kindness 

 of M. Professeur Dufresne we saw an original drawing of this 

 animal that had been taken from the living subject, and had also the 

 opportunity of comparing it with the preserved specimen, which v/as 

 taken out of its case for the purpose, and the result of this investiga- 

 tion assured us that the colour of the skin in the Parisian specimen 

 when alive, was considerably paler and more inclining to a ruddy 

 tint than in our example. 



We believe that the differences between the two kinds of Orang 

 Outangs, the Rufous and the Black, have been so far distinctly 

 pointed out by us that they cannot easily be mistaken. Besides the 

 manifest difference in the colours, the great length of the arms in the 

 former, which reach nearly to the instep, while in the latter they ex- 

 tend only so far as to cover the knees, is a character at once decisive. 

 But there are yet two other synonymous references among authors 

 to the works of Buffon which deserve some consideration, lest these 

 two acknowledged species be multiplied into four. 



We allude to the Jocko and the Jocko de la petite espece of that 

 author. Whether these have been so accurately discriminated as the 

 present state of science may demand, we must admit, appears a little 

 doubtful : the modern French writers conclude that the Jocko de la 

 petite esptce of Buffon is of the same species as the rufous kind. 



