MAMMALOGY. 



PLATE LVIII. 



SIMIA SATYRUS 

 RUFOUS ORANG OUTANG, 



TWO STUDIES 

 OF 



THE HEAD. 



After having so minutely entered into the scientific character, 

 as well as history, manners and peculiarities of this extraordinary 

 animal in the preceding article, we rest persuaded that there can be 

 no necessity for again adverting to those particulars. It may be 

 sufficient to observe that the figures in the annexed plate present 

 two studies of the head in different positions, the upper one shewing 

 the contour of the face in a direction the most favourable for ex- 

 pressing the relative proportions of the profile to the whole visage ; 

 the other, its appearance when viewed immediately in front. In 

 the first of these the countenance pourtrays his characteristic gravity 

 and penetration in his serious and more pensive moments ; the other 



