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Show 4 1 8 THE HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD ON [Dec. 13, Text-fig. 101. Skull of Gorilla gorilla matschiei Uotliscli. (Side view.) G orilla gorilla d ie h l i Matschie. (Text-fig. 103, p. 420.) Sitzungsber. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin, 1904, p. 52. Habitat. Northern Camaroons. G o rilla beringert Matschie. (Text-fig. 104, p. 421.) Sitzungsber. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin, 1903, pp. 253-259. Habitat. Kirunga, Ya Sabinyo Volcano, German East Africa. The genus and species of Chimpanzees now must be considered, and the first and most vexed question is that of the correct nomenclature. In common with Mr. Oldfield Thomas and most of the continental and American zoologists, I adopt, as the starting-point, Linnaeus's tenth edition of the ‘ Systema Naturae' (1758). This being the case, I must now go into the changes it necessitates. In the first place, Anthropopithecus Blainville, 1838, must sink, as we find by the help of Palmer & Merriam's ‘ Index Generum Mammalium,' p. 109, that there are the following generic names older than Anthropopithecus, viz.:-Troglodytes Geoffroy, 1812; Pan Oken, 1816 ; and Theranihropus Brookes, 1828. Troglodytes was used as a name for the Wren in 1806 by Vieillot, while |