Note 697 — Chapter XIV · THE ORDER PRIMATES (continued 2)
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De Blainville, Leçons Orales (1839). The Chimpanzees have been very generally described under the name of Troglodytes, but since this name is preoccupied for a genus of birds, it is incumbent to follow the strict rule, and adopt the name Anthropopithecus, although both the present writers have elsewhere expressed the opposite opinion.