. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE ysCHIEGd MBOVVA "It is not as powerful an animal as the Gorilla, its cliest is not so large, but the arms and fingers are a little longer, and this is the case with the toes also. The nose is not so prominent, but the mouth is wider and the ears are larger. Its chin is rounder, and has more small hairs, and the side of the face is thinly covered with hair, commencing about the middle of the ear, and these would seem to be signs of an incipient beard and whiskers. The lower parts of the body are biire, and the skin m wliite
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE ysCHIEGd MBOVVA "It is not as powerful an animal as the Gorilla, its cliest is not so large, but the arms and fingers are a little longer, and this is the case with the toes also. The nose is not so prominent, but the mouth is wider and the ears are larger. Its chin is rounder, and has more small hairs, and the side of the face is thinly covered with hair, commencing about the middle of the ear, and these would seem to be signs of an incipient beard and whiskers. The lower parts of the body are biire, and the skin m wliite ; Apparently the disposition and temper of the Nschiegb are better than those of the Gorilla ; it is less ferocious, and is even docile in captivity. It has not the hideous expression of the great Ape, for there is something of a forehead above the ridge of the eyebrow, and there are no great crests on the head, which is ronnder than that of the Gorilla. The teeth are rather smaller, Ijut are of the same number. The height is less than that of the female Gorilla, as a rule; and the male of this bald kind is larger than its female; whilst the little young ones differ in their colour from both, being white. Finally, it would appear that there are hard callous pads on the back of the fingers, that the hand is larger than the feet, and that the tips of the fingers i-each a little below the knee Associated with tlie Gorilla and with the Chimpanzee in the forests of Equatorial Western Africa, the Bald- headed Troglodyte appears to have a restricted geogi-aphical range, and not to be found over so lai-ge a district as its companions, for it was only met with on the table-lands of the interior, and in the densest forests. Subsequently Du Chaillu had a good opportunity of substantiating his statements about the nests. " On our way down, at sunset of the third day, we lieard the call of a N'schiego Mbouv6 (Troglodytes calvus). I immediately caused my men to lie down, and was jus
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