INDICATION OF A 



round, level with the cheeks, possessed of a third lid which may be drawn 

 two-thirds over the cornea, and of a round pupil ; their position nearly 

 equidistant from the snout and ear. The nude ears are shaped and dis- 

 posed pretty much as in the human subject : but the helix is wholly want- 

 ing, being replaced by a marginal obtuse sw^elling of the skin merely. The 

 parallel portion of the anti-helix is rather more sharply defined ; but the 

 transverse is wholly absent : the tragus distinct, but the anti-tragus and lobe 

 evanescent. The conch is elongated vertically like the rest of the organ, 

 with but a small cavity and no superior definite limitation : the opening 

 into the interior simple, apert, and round : the neck of the animal short 

 and very thick : the body still thicker ; being as deep almost as the length 

 of the limbs, which are short and powerful, particularly the anterior ones. 

 The digits are 5 in all four extremities, blended with the metacarpal and 

 metatarsal joints so as to constitute solid pads for the feet, the anteal half 

 only of the last phalanges being free, and connected superiorly by a small 

 strong membrane which is firmly attached to the nails. The inferior surface 

 of the hands and feet, to the back of the wrist and to the os calcis is 

 perfectly nude, the palms and soles being full, soft, and fleshy. At the 

 forward end of each anterior digit is a very large ball, suitable to keep the 

 huge nails from embarrassing the animal's walk ; but the bases of all the 

 5 digits rest on one, undivided, round, pad, behind which is another, as 

 large almost, and of similar shape, for the metacarpi. The balls of the 

 hinder extremities resemble those of the fore, save that the metatarsal pad 

 lies less centrally behind the termino-digital one, and is somewhat less 

 developed. The gradation of the anterior digits is thus : the central largest, 

 then the index, next the annular, then the external finger, retracted as in 

 our hand, and with its nail similarly diminished ; last the internal one, 

 subremote as with us, but much the feeblest of all. The hind feet are 

 considerably smaller than the fore : they have the external digits less 

 retracted \ the talons of the whole much less developed ; more nearly equal 



