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Society's Gardens a year or two back : the young was observed to 

 take both teats of the mother into its mouth at once. Mr. Sclater 1 

 in a recent list of the group allows forty-seven species, of which 

 thirty-three were examined by himself. Subsequently, however, 

 the list has been reduced to forty by the same authority. One 

 of the rarest species is C. stairsi, first described from a skin 

 stripped from a specimen which lived for a short time at the 

 Zoological Gardens. 



The genus Cynocephalus (or Papio) includes the Baboons ; and 

 the scientific name indicates the Dog-like aspect of these animals, 

 due to the projecting snout. Cynocephalus is confined to 

 Africa and Arabia. Several of the species of the genus are well 

 known. The Mandrill, C. mormon (or maimori), has blue ridges 

 on the muzzle, the bridge of the nose being red. The animal 

 lives in herds, and is ferocious and omnivorous. The Chacma 

 Baboon, C. porcarius, is the largest of Baboons. It lives in Soutli 

 Africa in large herds. The Arabian Baboon, C. hamadryas, is 

 the Sacred Baboon of the Egyptians. The names of two other 

 species, C. thoth and C. anubis, serve also to remind us of the 

 ancient Egyptians. There are altogether eleven species of 

 Cynocephalus. 



Gelada (or Theropithecus) is separated as a distinct genus. 

 Though regarded as a Baboon, Garrod has pointed out many 

 points of likeness to Cercopithecus. 2 The two species are, like 

 the other Baboons, African. 



Cynopithecus niger is a small black Baboon from Celebes. It 

 has swellings on the muzzle as in other Baboons, but differs from 

 them in being a more amiable creature as well as in its smaller 

 size. It has a rudimentary tail, smaller even than the small tail 

 of the typical Baboons. It has, like them, ischial callosities. 



In the second sub -family, Semnopithecinae, the following 

 characters are distinctive : All the Apes of this group are slender 

 in form, with a long tail. There are no cheek pouches. The 

 stomach is sacculated ; it is divided into three portions. This is 

 accompanied by an apparently more exclusively vegetarian diet 

 than characterises other Apes, which mingle with their diet of 

 fruit a large proportion of insects, eggs, etc. 



"On a new African Monkey of the genus Cercopithecus, with a List of the 

 known Species," Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 243 ; see also p. 441. 

 2 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 451. 



