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LONG-ARMED APE. 
Simia Lar. S. ecaudafa, natihus calvis, hrachiis longitudine corporis, 
Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 2. 
Tailless black Ape (sometimes white), without callosities be- 
hind, and with arms as long as the body. 
Homo Lar. Lin. Mantiss. pi. 2. 521. 
Simia Longimana. Schreher Saeugth. t. 3./. i. 
Miller Cimelia Physic a. /. 27. 
Grand Gibbon. Buff. Hist. Nat. 14. 2. 
Long-armed Ape. Pennant ^adr. p. 1 84. 
Var, 
Petit Gibbon. Buff. Hist. Nat, 14. /. 3. 
Simia Longimana. Museum Leverianum. 2. t. I. 
This is a species of a more deformed appear- 
ance than the Oran Otan^ and is distinguished by 
the excessive length of its arms^ which, when the 
animal stands upright, are capable of touching the 
ground with the fingers. It is a native of India 
and some of the Indian islands, and grows to the 
height of four feet or more. Its colour is black ; 
but the face is commonly surrounded by a whitish 
beard. This animal is well figured in Buffon; 
and a smaller variety is finely represented in Mr. 
Millar s miscellaneous plates of Natural History. 
Variety. — White gibbon. This is generally 
considered as a variety of the former ; from which 
it differs in being entirely white, except the face 
and hands, which are black. In the Leverian Mu- 
seum is a most elegant specimen, which is figured 
in No. £ of the Museum Lemrianum, Our present 
figure is also from the same specimen. What 
seems to prove this to be a variety of the black 
