THE LONG-ARMED 



APE. 



Generic Characters. 

 Four cutting, and two canine teeth in each jaw. 



Each of the feet formed like hands, generally with flat nails, and, 



except in one inftance, have four fingers and a thumb. 

 Eye-brows above and below. 



Synonim. 



Le grand Gibbon, de Buffon, xiv. 92. tab, ii. Schreher, 78. tab. hi, 



THE appearance of this Ape is rendered peculiarly difgufting by its arms, 

 which are of fo dilproportional a length as to reach to the ground when its 

 body is in an erecl polition. Its flat, fwarthy face is completely furrounded 

 with grey hairs ; its eyes are large, but deeply funk ; and, exclusive of its 

 ears and pofleriors, it is covered on every part with black, rough hair ; its 

 difpolition is gentle, inofFenfive, and tradable ; and it commonly grows to 

 the height of four feet. 



A variety of this fpecies is noticed by Mr. Pennant, as greatly refembling 

 the former, but differing in its coat, which is brown and grey ; and being 

 fliorter of ftature. 



The fame gentleman mentions an (a) animal (lately in the pofTeflion of 

 a Britilh nobleman) which was fo nearly allied to this variety in lhape as to 

 be indivilible ; yet its arms were morter, and its form more elegant ; its face, 

 ears, hands, and feet, were black; but the other parts of its body were 

 covered with filvery hairs ; it was about three feet high, good-natured, 

 vivacious, and frolickfome. 



Thefe animals are found in great numbers among the woods of Malacca, 

 Sumatra, and the Molucca Illands ; where they fubfrft on leaves, fruits, and 

 barks of trees. 



(a) Pennant's Hiftory of Quadrupeds, Vol. I. page 184. 



