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Show 420 THE HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD ON [Dec. 13, Text-fig. 103. Skull of Gorilla gorilla diehli Matschie. (In Tring Museum.) ‘ Systema Naturae,' i. p. 25 (ed. x. 1758) an anthropoid ape as follows: - 11 Satyr us. 1. S. ecaudata subtus nuda. Syst. Nat. vi. p. 3. Satyr us indicus Tulp. obs. I l l c. 56. Habitat in Africa. Asia. Magnitudine pueri sexennis. Dorsum crinibus nigris hir-sutum ; subtus s. antice undique glaber." Tulp described and figured an ape which was brought from West Africa and presented to Prince Frederick Henry of Orange, and which lived some years in Europe. Linnaeus copied Tulp's description almost word for word, and, as quoted above, expressly states that the S. satyrus was black on the back. It was only in his twelfth edition (1766) that Linmeus calls the Orang-Outan Simla satyrus, and says it is red-haired, but he had already, in the ‘ Amoenitates Academics?,' vi. p. 69 (1763), named the red-haired animal Simla pygmmis. Not only, |