THE BJRBJRY APE. 



Generic Characters. 

 Four cutting and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Each foot formed like a hand, the nails generally flat, and, except in 



one inftance, has four fingers and a thumb. 

 Eye-brows above and below. 



Synonims. 



KwoKifpoiXog, Arijl. Hift. An. lib. ii. c. 8. 

 Cynocephalus, Plin. lib. viii. c. 54. Gefner Quad. 85Q. 

 Sim i a Inuus, Linn. Syjl. Nat. 35. 



Simius Cynocephalus, Pr. Alp, Egypt, i. 241. tab. xv. xvi. 

 Le Ma got de Buff on, xiv. log. tab. vii. viii. 

 Le Singe Cynocephale, Briffon Quad. 

 Barbary Ape, Pennant's Syn. Quad, loo. 



Yellow Ape, Du Halde Chin. i. 120. La Rogue Voy. Arab. 210. 



IT appears from the writings of Ariftotle, Pliny, and others, that the 

 ancient naturalifts were acquainted with this animal ; but they have made 

 two Ipecies of it, calling it Pithecus in its young Hate, and Cynocephalus 

 after it had attained its full growth. They defcribed the Pithecus as having 

 very fhort canine teeth, no longer than the cutting teeth, and a muzzle 

 equally lhort ; whereas their Cynocephalus had very long and large canine 

 teeth, and the nofe considerably lengthened, like that of a Dog. The mittake 

 was eafily made; but a circumftance which happened to the late Count de 

 Burfbn puts the matter out of all difpute. That celebrated naturaliit, in 

 his fupplement, gives a figure of an Ape, under the name of Pitheque, which 



