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the Orang-outang 1 which I saw at Mr, Swinton’s. The head is more thickly 
covered with hair, and hangs down much longer on each side of the cheeks, and is 
more bushy. The nose is a more prominent features *, the lips are thicker, especially 
the under 4 , and turns more outward than in any other of the species I have 
seen, one of the marked distinctions between this order and man. The nail on the 
great toe is wanting ; this is an essential difference 5 . Its gait or mode of mov- 
ing about the room, is generally at a walk in an upright posture ; whereas the 
animal which I used to observe at Mr. Swinton's, scarcely ever attempted to 
move, in an upright posture 6 . On the contrary, his manner of moving was in a 
stooping position, pushing himself along the ground with his hands like a cripple 
bent double. It is worthy ol remark, that in accelerating his motions in this man- 
ner, he always used the back of the hand ; thus bending the wrist in a contrary 
direction to the human species. 
Anatomical subjects of the species Simia Satyrus will now be a desideratum, 
because tbe naturalists who have inspected the female subject, which I sent to Sir 
Stamfoi d Raffles from Sumatra, have described it to be of a different species to the 
animal already designated and described under the genus Simia Satyrus, or Orang- 
outang ot Borneo', in Lmnaeus* System. I have not seen the paper myself, which 
lias been read before the Society in London, in delineation of the specimen which 
1 transmitted. But I believe one essential difference in the structure of the Su- 
matran animal, which distinguishes it from the Borneo specimens which have hi- 
therto been sent home for examination, is in the number of spinal bones being 
greater m the Sumatran ape. The naturalists in England have described the Su- 
matran annual to be ot a different species of Simia, which they allege Dr. Abel, in 
his description ot the animal, brought to Calcutta by Captain Cornfoot 8 , has err o- 
neously classed with tin Orang-outang of Borneo. What a pity it is, there is now so 
little prospect of obtaining another specimen of this wonderful inhabitant of Snma- 
• 1 w “ ot y. e ll0 "\ t ,e difference of opinion can be set at rest, without obtain- 
*“? “ !' e :' ‘ ect subject with all the fleshy pacts and viscera for examination*. If I 
ce«ai„W end" ,° P1,0rt " mty of retUr ? ir, S t0 Bengal by the way of Sumatra, I shall 
ce.ta.nly endeavour to get up to the northern parts, and spare no troub e-or ex- 
pense to procure another subject.” 1 
A model of the male Orang, in the possession of Mr. Svvinton, has been sent- by 
that gentleman to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. ’ r 
VI [. — Miscellaneous Notices. 
1. Crocodile of the Nile and Ghariffl of the Ganges. 
A story, related by Herodotus, of the Crocodile of Hip k, 1 p i fj i* 
rally disbelieved by tbe naturalists of Europe, when a coimmi’nir V61T ® ene ' 
ed, m January 1828, by JY1. Geoffrov St H Ini™ T ] mC 1 was present- 
firming the general truth of the story, though correcting some° f thTd"’ tT" 
Herodotus says, that this rpntilp'« : t , » some ot the details. 
W/U, (generally transhited'leech )™d U, a SSft* ^ calls 
mouth, trees him from this p.ague.’V ret4 
Montgouierie 'Sreis me, "that the fenale"lm’d' ““ st . r0 “tiy inclined to believe. Dr. 
move 
can 
The female may ha^ h “ found.-C 
e exactly in the same way : but ste can bX* up "» ht - playing together, they 
— G. S. * ’ 1 sne can balance herself better on her legs than he 
/^RandwTs 6 kilS 0f ] my < ®f n,er ,Rtters - She was about five 
Abel A was found.— G. S. pUce > where the great male, described by Dr. 
_ 1^ b ave ^gi vmf ^cmnm issi on ^ Tt jaW and ski “ brought to Calcutta — G 
deavour to get one, dead or alive?-G . < s ptaia of a vessel > trading with Sun 
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Sumatra, to en- 
