 The mouth projects considerably in a mammillary form, and its opening is very large ; when closed the lips appear narrow, but are in reality half an inch in thickness. The hair of the head is of a reddish-brown, grows from behind forwards, and is five...  The Naturalist's Library - Page 85by Sir William Jardine - 1833Full view - About this book
 | 1826 - 412 pages
...animal's lifetime. Its colour is lighter than that of the head, approaching to a light chesnut. The beard is about three inches long, springing very gracefully...lip, near the angles of the mouth, in the form of mustachios, whence descending, it mixes with that of the chin, the whole having at present a very wary... | |
 | 1827 - 448 pages
...beard is handsome, and appears to have been curly in the animal's lifetime, and approaches to a chesnut colour ; it is about three inches long, springing very gracefully from the upper lip near APKIL — JUNE 1827. - F 82 Dr Abel on the capture of a Colossal Orang Outang, the angles of the mouth,... | |
 | 1827 - 442 pages
...beard is handsome, and appears to have been curly in the animal's lifetime, and approaches to a chesnut colour ; it is about three inches long, springing very gracefully from the upper lip near AMIII, JUNE 1827. F the angles of the mouth, in the form of mustachios, whence descending, it mixes... | |
 | 1828 - 614 pages
...is handsome, and appears to have been curly in the animal's life-time, and approaches to a cliesnut colour ; it is about three inches long, springing...upper lip near the angles of the mouth, in the form of mustaclnos, whence descending, it mixes with that of the chin, the whole having at present a very wavy... | |
 | 1828 - 608 pages
...is handsome, and appears to have been curly in the animal's life-time, and approaches to a chesnut colour ; it is about three inches long, springing very gracefully from the C« upper lip near the angles of the mouth, in the form of mustachios, whence descending, it mixes... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 1178 pages
...animal's lifetime. Its colour is lighter than that of the head, approaching to a light chestnut. The beard is about three inches long, springing very gracefully...lip, near the angles of the mouth, in the form of mustachioe, •whence descending, it mixes with that of the chin, the whole having at present a very... | |
 | William Jardine - 1833 - 346 pages
...scattered over it, and is of a dark lead colour. The eyes are small in relation to those of man, arid are about an inch apart ; the eyelids well fringed...the face, from the commencement of the hair on the VOL. I. L forehead to the setting on of the neck, was thirteen inches and a half, and the other parts... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1847 - 434 pages
...chesnut-coloured beard was handsome, but very wiry, and appeared to have been curly in life, springing gracefully from the upper lip, near the angles of the mouth, in the form of moustaches, and thence descending to mingle with the portion growing on the chin. The personage who... | |
 | William Jardine - 1866 - 458 pages
...form, and its opening is very large ; when closed, the lips appear narrow, but are in reality half »n inch in thickness. The hair of the head is of a reddish-brown,...the face, from the commencement of the hair on the I forehead to the setting on of the neck, was thirteeir inches and a half, and the other parts in a... | |
 | Reinhold Rost - 2000 - 348 pages
...lifetime, and approaches to a chestnut colour; it is abnut three inches long, springing very gmcefully from the upper lip near the angles of the mouth in the form of mustachios, whence descending it mixes with that of the chin, the whole having at present a very wavy... | |
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