[A54]

(Man)

Hist. Nat. des Mamm. par Geoffroy St-Hilaire & F Cuvier 1824 Tom. I. p. 2. Hylobates agilis Female eyebrows less marked - Ses Favoris (whiskers) less coloured & less long than in male p 85, yet well developed so that head broader than long. Young are coloured yellowish-white, adults brown.

Females rather smaller than males

Hylobates lar. female decidedly smaller than male - white "favoris" whiskers absent - chest & belly lightly clothed with hair - Hairs of back very [text excised].

[in margin:] Whiskers add to head Ruffs of Hair quite common females.

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Étienne and Cuvier, Frédéric. 1824-1857. Histoire naturelle des mammifères, avec des figures originales coloriées, dessinées d'après des animaux vivans; publiée sous l'autorité de l'administration du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. vols. 1-3 and part of vol. 4. Paris: Chez A. Belin. Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 318, n7: "As in Macacus cynomolgus (Desmarest, 'Mammalogie,' p. 65) and in Hylobates agilis (Geoffroy St.-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, 'Hist. Nat. des Mamm.' 1824, tom. i. p. 2)."