xoa 
A P E. 
Mantegar- Ph. Tr . No. 290. Abridge V. 182. 
if FT ED. Bradley s Nat. 117. tab. xv. Jig 1. 
A. with a nofe and head fourteen inches in length: 
the nofe of a deep red* face blue, both naked: black 
eye-brows : ears like the human : on the top of the 
head a long upright tuft of hair, on the chin ano¬ 
ther: two long tufks in the upper jaw: fore feet 
exactly refembling hands, and the nails on the fin¬ 
gers flat 4 the hind feet have the thumbs lefs. per¬ 
fect* and the nails imbricated : the fore part of the 
body, and the infide of the legs and arms, naked: 
the outfide covered with mottled brown and olive 
hair; that on the back dufky: the buttocks red, 
and bare: length, from the nofe to the rump, three 
feet two inches. 
A fpecies of difgufting deformity very fierce and 
falacious •, went on all fours ; but would fit up on its 
rump, and fupport itfelf with a flick: in this atti¬ 
tude would hold a cup in its hand, and drink out 
of it: its food, vis fruits. 
Ariftotle barely mentions another fpecies of ape 
under the title of ^ot^n^mog^ fii/yiia Porcaria . IVL 
de Buff on imagines it to be the baboon ; but fince the 
Philofopher exprefly fays, that his JLSuxp*, or apes, 
had no tails, we cannot affent to its being the baboon. 
1 rather think it a fpecies we have not at prefent 
knowlege of. Among my drawings is the copy of 
one in the Britijh Mufeum , with a nofe exactly re¬ 
fembling that of a hog, which poffibly may beyfn- 
fiotiel animal *, but there is no account attending 
the painting to enable us to trace its hiilory. 
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