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PYGMV. 
for docility or good temper; but, by force of dis- 
cipline, is made to exhibit a greater degree of in-^ 
telligence than many others. Its colour is an 
olivaceous brown^ paler or whiter beneath : the 
face is of a swarthy flesh colour. The hands and 
feet have nails resembling the human^ as in the 
two former species. It is also destitute of any real 
taiL but there is commonly a short skinny appen- 
dix in the place of one. This animal is found in 
Barbary, as well as in many of the lower parts of 
Africa. 
PYGMY. 
Simia Sylvanus. S. ecaudata, natibus cal^is, capite suhrotundOf 
brachiis bre'vioribus, Lin. 
Tailless pale-brown Ape, with callosities behind, and with a 
roundish head. 
Simia. Gen. ^adr. Raii syn* ^adr. l^g, 
Cercopithecus. Jonst, ^adr, t. 59./. 5. 
Pitheque. Buff. Nat. Hist, 14./. 84. and supp. 7. /. 2. 3. 4. 5. 
Pygmy Ape. Pennant ^adr. p. i^-^, 
Var.? 
Alpin. Hist. Nat, ^gypt. t, 20. f, i. 
This is the smallest of the genuine Apes or 
those destitute of tails. In its general appearance, 
as well as in colour^ it extremely resembles the 
Barbary Ape ; but is not larger than a cat, and has 
a rounder or flatter face than the Barbary Ape. 
This is supposed, by Mr. Pennant, to have been 
the Pygmy of the ancients, which was said to 
wage war, at certain seasons, with the cranes. It 
