MAMMA LI A— BABOON. 



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ing itself by biting those who were near it, which obliged us to bind our 

 handkerchiefs over its head." 



Tavernier tells us that some of the inhabitants of India adopt a ludicrous 

 mode of avenging themselves on these monkeys, who not unfrequently 

 attack the women who are going *to market, and rob them of their prow 

 sions. In an open space, near the retreat of the apes, they place five or 

 six baskets of rice, forty or fifty yards asunder, and near the baskets, a num- 

 ber of stout cudgels, each two feet in length. They then hide themselves, 

 to watch for the result. Thinking that no one sees them, the apes hasten 

 towards the baskets. For a while they grin angrily at each other, then 

 approach, then retire, and seem to dread coming to action for the prey. 

 More daring than the males, the females at length advance to the baskets, 

 and as they thrust in their heads to eat, the males on the one side rush 

 forward to prevent them. This brings on a general engagement, and the 

 cudgels are lustily plied till the weakest party is compelled to seek for 

 shelter in the woods. The victors then quietly fall to, upon their hard- 

 earned meal. 



THE PIG-FACED BABOON.* 



Tifis animal, which is also called the chacma, is a native of Africa, and 

 was formerly exceedingly troublesome to the settlers in the neighborhood 



1 Ci/nocephalus porcarius. The genus Cynocephalus comprises Simire, with four upper 

 and four Iosver incisors; two upper, and two lower canines; ten tipper, and ten lowei 

 molars. Canines very strong; last molar of the under jaw on each side with a heel; 

 heart and muzzle much elongated ; nostrils placed at the extremity, like the dog ; facial 

 angle, thirty to thirty-five degrees : superciliary, sagittal, and occipital ridges, much de- 

 veloped ; orhit hollow ; maxillary bone much produced ; face wrinkled, with longitudinal 

 striae ; ears flat and angular ; cheek p. ' iches ; members of nearly equal length, and verv 

 robust ; large callosities. 



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