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which they lay, it required the closest search to find them. 

 Lying flat on the ground, their sharp acute horna mimicked 

 the poiuta of leaveg, from which Unea radiated representing 

 crossing and overlapping margins, whib dark-bruwa spt/td atid 



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markings distribnted over their bodies could not bo told from 

 the blotches and fungoid growths of decaying vegetation. In 

 coitu the male embraces the female round the lumbar region. 



On shooting a Siamang in oiir high JJrosHgma preserve, 

 my hunter found, on picking it up, a young ont; clasped in 



