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NATURAL HISTORY. 
muscles for the four outer fingers. The extensor of the first, and the corresponding muscle of the little 
finger, subdivide to supply the third and fourth. This is the case in the next group of Apes also, 
but in the Troglodytes each of these muscles has but a single tendon.* 
THE ORAXG AND ITS NEST. 
Before considering the anatomy of the brain, skull, and the inside of the Orang, it is as well to 
become aware of some of its peculiarities when young, and in a state of captivity. 
* A muscle, called the accessory flexor of the toes, is absent in the Orangs, and one termed scansorius , or climber, exists 
on the outside of the hip and the joint of the thigh. 
