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cious fubdivifion of the long-tailed apes, or the 
true monkies, into fuch which had prehenfile tails *, 
and fuch which had not. i (hall endeavour in this 
genus no other reform in the fyftem of our country¬ 
man, than what that gentleman has made; in re- 
fpe£t to the trivial names of the fpecies, I have in 
general invented fuch as I fuppofed congruous, or 
in a few inftances retained thofe of M. de Buff on . 
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Without tails •, the true Apes. 
64. Great. Satyrus Gefnerquad. 863. Le Pongo ibid. 
Pongo Purchass Pilgr. II. 982. v. L’Homme de bois. Simia ungui- 
623. bus omnibus planis et rotundatis 
Homo fylveftris, orang outang. caefarie faciem cingente. Briffon 
Pontius Java. 84. Beckman’s Bor- quad. 134. 
neo 37. Homo Troglodytes. Homonoc- 
Baris Nuremberg. 179. turnus Lin.fyji. 33. Amcen. Acad . 
Barrys Barbot’s Guinea. 101. vi. 68. 69. 72. 
Quojas morrou. idem 115. Simia fatyrus. S. ecaudata ferru- 
Chimpanzee Scotin 9 s print. 1738. ginea, lacertorum pilis reverlis, 
Man of the wood Edw. 213. natibus tedtis. Lin. jyji. 34. 2?r. 
Le Jocko deBuffonxiv. 44. tab. I. Muf. 
A. with a flat face, and a deformed refemblance of 
the human : ears exactly like thofe of a man : hair 
on the head longer than on the body : body and 
limbs covered with reddifh and fhaggy hair ; longeft: 
on the back, thinnefl: on the fore-parts : face and 
paws fwarthy : buttocks covered with hair. 
Inhabits the interior parts of Africa , the ifles of 
Sumatra , Borneo , and Java . Are folitary, and 
* Animals with this kind of tail can lay hold of any thing with 
it, for it ferves all the ufes of a hand ; they can twift it round the 
branch of a tree, and fufpend themfelves by it, or keep them fecure 
in their feat, while their feet are otherwife employed. This faculty 
is common to fome Monkies , to Macaucos and one fpecies of Porcupine . 
Fide plates of yellow Macauco, and Brafilian Porcupine . 
