DIGITATED QUADRUPEDS. 
APE. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Four cutting teeth, and two canine, in each jaw. 
Feet formed like hands, and, except in one instance, have 
four fingers and thumb. 
ORANG OUTANG. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
SimIA Satyrus. S. ecaudata ferruginea, lacertorum pilis reversis, 
natibus tectis. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gniel. 1 { 
p. 2 6 . 
Without a tail, colour rusty brown, hair ori 
the lower part of the arms reversed, without 
callosities behind. 
Homo sylvestris. Edw. Av. 5. p. 6. t. 213. 
Orang utang sive Homo sylvestris. 
Tyson. Anat. Pygm. f. 1, 2. 
Orang outang. Sm. Buff. v. 8. p. 77 - ph 258. Penn. Hist . 
Quadr. v. 1. p. 180. pi. 36. Bew. Quadr. 
p. 413. Oran otan Shaw Gen. Zool. pi. \ i 
2, 3, 4. 
Of the very extensive tribe to which this animal 
belongs, not one so nearly approaches the human 
form, or is so strongly impressed with the human 
likeness, as the oran outang, or wild man of the 
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