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I. Observations on the Anatomy of the Orang 

 Outang. 



By Dr Thomas Stewart Traill, Liverpool. 

 {Bead 1th February 1818.) 



An opportunity of examining the internal struc- 

 ture of the Orang Outang, so rarely occurs to the 

 British anatomist, that I eagerly availed myself of 

 the permission granted by Mr Bullock, proprietor 

 of the Museum in Piccadilly, to dissect a specimen 

 of this animal, which was his property, and had re- 

 cently died at Liverpool. A slight examination of 

 its external appearance convinced me of the inac- 

 curacy of the engravings of the Orang Outang in 

 our best works on Natural History. Under the 

 name of Orang Outang, or its supposed synonymes, 

 most naturalists appear to have confounded two 

 distinct animals, the Indian or Brown Orang, and 

 the African or black species. The figures published 

 by Tyson and BufFon, are intended to represent the 



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